ENGB08H3 Lecture Notes - Luxury Goods
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Archaic less necessary to exchange things now documentation, verification, bureaucratization. Fordism, the model t, the assembly line technique the purchase of product by paying workers enough. Rules about what the men who employed there could do given farmable plots of land by the company encouraged to buy cars couldn"t drink avoidance of labour unions. Model t, a distinct version of the car, made economically so it could be sold reasonably priced, meant for the every man specialization. Every model t was identical, all black even, all had the same parts. The department store eliminated traffic and weather not just to spend money but to spend time in the space public consumption. The growing importance of the car transition from being useful to being a luxury good colours see ads in the powerpoint. Conspicious consumption display of wealth and economic power that we posess. Connection for youth frontier death, growth of the corporation as a mode of growth.
