Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for May 23, 2020
May 22, 2020
May 24, 2020
Transcript:
It's called conspicuous consumption Thorstein Veblen proposed it in 1899. The basic idea is that people spend wastefully and publicly to gain social status. So they put all this wasted effort into pointless things just for status? Yep. I'm glad we academics don't have that sort of problem. I wouldn't know. I spent all of my time reading books that are too obscure for other people.
The Old Wolf over 4 years ago
“I just spent my lunch hour reading Lisa Piccirillo’s solution to Conway’s Knot Problem. It was hair-raising!”
David OBrien over 4 years ago
“I wouldn’t understand”, he said baldly.
Ida No over 4 years ago
My particle collider is bigger than your accelerator, and mine goes to 11.
ArtyD2 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Tuberculosis is Consumption. Is CV-19 conspicuous consumption?
Check the Oxford Press and find out.
P51Strega over 4 years ago
We all need to feel superior in some way. “Status” is forcing others to acknowledge that superiority.
Thanks to my superior humbleness, I don’t need status (LOL).
Plods with ...™ over 4 years ago
Pompous a$$ery is alive and well in academia.
Mad Sci over 4 years ago
Such consumption is bad for the consumer, but the workers who produce the consumables are still worthy of their pay