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by dkjaudyeqooe 909 days ago
The point of luxury goods is exclusivity - I've got a real one because I can afford it and you can't, it doesn't matter that it looks the same or even is the same, it not real it's not expensive.

Luxury goods turn economics on its head, the whole point is to overpay for a good which has little in the way of marginal return, to illustrate your wealth and "status".

I'd just call it idiocy or at least pretentiousness, and their counter argument would be that I'm "envious".