butwhyishischinabook

South FL, but my commute is taking the train for an hour or so, minus the fairly short drive to the station. The public transit life is great.

South FL. At about 3.89 cash, 4.09 card. It was under 3.00 before the strikes.

Fair enough, but I think when the average person says “luxury apparel” they specificity mean Veblen goods distributed by companies that intentionally hamstring their own logistics in order to manipulate the price point regardless of quality. At that point you’re just selling deliberately manufactured exclusion as a commodity. The one-off artisan bootmaker is to luxury goods what the single family farm that hugs their cow every morning is to industrial agriculture.