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Holiday Shopping Guide

Holiday Shopping Guide

Dec 09, 2021
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We need to come up with a new term for emperor’s new clothes, or maybe a few, to specify all the ways in which people buy nothing but it means something. Something like empty calories, or logomania, but about more contemporary phenomena, like the idea of paying for the very things that money cannot buy, or those experiences that one purchases only to be…

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