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Profit and marketing expenses.

The bag is worth close to nothing.
The vast majority of that money goes towards heavy advertising to create a mental image of scarcity and luxury.

It's fake luxury because it can be replicated by any Temu merchant in a day.

Real luxuries like mercury gilded, hand carved antiques from the 1800s or a mechanical Voutilainen watch can't just be replicated or 3d printed, not only are the materials expensive, there is 1000+ hours of skilled hand labour involved.

A Dior bag is an illusion. It's only *marketed* as luxury. Nothing about the construction or material used differs from a handmade unknown brand $199 bag.
You are literally paying thousands extra for a $0.01 brass logo that was created in China and slapped on the product in France or Italy by a north african (often illegal) low wage migrant worker.

>>313901
I hate the idea of making money. It feels so immoral to ask for anything more than what my costs were for something. Also the fact that people call it "hustling", feels so wrong.
I don't mind other people doing it, because their taxes pay for my neetbux. I just don't want to do it myself.

Don't blame the entrepreneurs who are making huge profits on "designer" goods. Scold the retards who pay for that garbage, and kill the subhumans who took advantage of their idiocracy to convince them to pursue such frivolous bullshit.

>>313916
>don't blame the Jews for jewing you blame yourself for being jewed
where have i seen this rhetoric before?

>>313917
Dumbfuck ESL.

>>313917
Good point

>>313906
The price is fair at whatever point another person voluntarily pays it.

It doesn't make it less of a fake luxury. Think of the Prime energy drink that sold for $30 a can at launch because it was marketed to teens by celebrities who were paid millions in advance.
The drink is garbage, it's carbonated water with artificial sweeteners and some minerals, ii.e. indistinguishable from a $1.50 "vitamin water".

And guess what, tons and tons of teenagers bought cans of it to appear "high status" to their peers who were drinking plain old pedestrian Coke or Pepsi.

These marketers know how dumb and primitive the average consumer is and tap onto those primal desires like attempting to appear wealthy by publicly drinking a $30 soda.

It doesn't matter what's inside the soda. It's not even a product you can consume alone, because everyone who buys it, buys a consumable Veblen good they want to display to peers to appear superior.
It's precisely like a drinkable Dior bag. A marketing scam that sucks out money from insecure people who want to appear superior for a moment.

There are major profits in taking advantage of these insecure people as long as you have money to create advertising campaigns utilizing images of celebrities or luxurious surroundings around the product.
Appeal to authority is only a fallacy for thinking people. Most people will gobble up literal camel shit if Kylie Jenner or Brad Pitt peddles it.

>>313901
Mogatu.

the price is not fair. it insults the concept of fairness when you include it in your disgraceful war against idiots.

you frame it as a weapon against fools yet you insist that it is a fair purchase of a good even though the act of purchase becomes means to an end in your war effort against easily trickable people.

People pay the money for the name and recognition. I don't get it either but the people who buy this stuff value this sort of thing enough to pay such an absurd amount for it.

>>314325
i believe indicators of wealth to be the highest possible disgrace.

i try to look as poor and ordinary as i possibly can. always keeps people wondering if i am homeless or a medieval peasant that somehow ended up in this time by mistake.

when you look rich and healthy, people always want to beg in one form or another; even just psychologically, which is how many people live their life. they may be rich financially but psychologically they have never left the nest of being a beggar.

>>314336

if this was real life, i'd very much enjoy challenging you to a non-reactathon to see who normies care the least about. i don't think you'd stand a chance against my bland, slightly tethered medieval-esque peasant apparel with what i suspect to be most likely flannel shirts, baseball caps and jeans. consider yourself lucky, amateur!

>>314343

i'd expect it to unfold like this: i would be both more recognizable and also more repelling. you might be more inconspicuous but also provide a higher chance of answering stupid questions.

you'd look like you would know what time it is while i would look like i would not even know what year it is.

its retards spending money on dumb shit

It's called conspicuous consumption. Economists noted it way back in the 19th century, basically rich (it's actually the aspiring rich, or new money) buy shit that's expensive solely because other people can't have it and it sets them apart. Actual rich people who have grown up with wealth don't feel the need to, as they're indifferent to their wealth, and usually pay for custom designs without brands. Your byldo Russian mafioso who has made his first million rubles will buy a Rolex watch so everyone poor he's around knows how hot shit and special he is. If the price was lower the poors could afford it, and it wouldn't be a signal of status. The price has to be high by necessity.

A lot of the blue is wasted on advertising, funnily enough. They cultivate the image of luxury to make the absurd products. But considering one of the top 5 richest men in the world makes his money off luxury goods, it seems like there's a big remainder of profit in there.

That's the reason those companies are located in Europe too, in places like Italy or Switzerland. Old world shit gives the image of luxury, and it's produced there but probably has money coming from Chang investors and its an international collaborative effort, as corporate as McDonalds, and not the wholesome pish posh eccentric French designers like people think.

Gross unit profit.
But I could be misremembering the terms.

>>314476
>But I could be misremembering the terms.

the question was what words YOU would use to describe it, not what your teacher taught you, teacher's pet.

doesn't it make more sense to use words you feel more certain about? of course not, disgraceful sage mage like you is just passing the time between sips of liquor.

>>314529
I am a autodidact.
Just one with a spotty memory. Stop being a jackass.

>>314541
>Just one with a spotty memory. Stop being a jackass.

i don't mind a spotty memory, i think you are the jackass for coming into a thread obviously critical of the nature of the financial system and what it has turned into, given free choice over how to interpret the facts and choosing to stick with the financial perspective on it this thread was meant to question.

and on top of that this was a chance to be creative and express yourself, finding new ways to communicate the situation. you didn't you just did what i would expect of a dictionary or a search engine. those already exist. you think there is anyone here not capable of using search engines? it wasn't about that.


>I am a autodidact.

you have a long way to go to become an autodidact…

>>314550
Stop playing scizo troll.

>>314566
You should have called him a troll first than he did later to you.

>>313901
if they know that retards will buy it at that price they will sell it at that price

>>314566
you disgraceful one-string-banjo belong in the kindergarten and not among wizards who know how to express themselves. stop weighing them down.

>>314627
>if they know that retards will buy it at that price they will sell it at that price

bad people tricking dumb people into giving them money. that's dirty money. maybe not as dirty as blood money but still bad money. that's not honest work. that's not respectable employment.

>>313901
Idiot tax. As the saying goes, "a fool and his money are soon parted".