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Tatsächlich gibt es einen direkten Zusammenhang zwischen dem Zusammenbruch von Standeshierarchien und der unablässigen Zurschaustellung von Waren, die zum wesentlichen Bestandteil der Konsumkultur wurde. Die nach wie vor vorhandene Ungleichheit ließ sich nun durch Objekte des Massenkonsums verschleiern, die den Leuten halfen, gleich auszusehen, sta

beyond the fact that Netflix was paying a high fee to license them.

This relationship between price and value held true in an uninterrupted way until the end of the eighteenth century, when – thanks to the Industrial Revolution – something extremely unusual happened: human beings worked out how to make high-quality goods at cheap prices, because of technology and new methods of organizing the labour force.

An uncanny economy has emerged in which a secure, middle-class lifestyle receded for many, but the material trappings of middle-class success became affordable to most. In the 1960s, it was possible to attend a four-year college debt-free but impossible to purchase a flat-screen television. By the 2020s, the reality was close to the reverse.

how to organize an economy when natural resources are valuable, jobs are scarce, and equity matters.

Among the few “converging results” on the questions above is the insight that low-income consumers prefer EDLP retailers and those with higher incomes prefer Hi-Lo retailers.

The richest 10% of the world’s population are responsible for more than half of the world’s total carbon emissions since 1990.