There’s a difference between poor, middle-class, and rich. The idea is that the middle class want to mimic the rich to look higher status. The rich don’t want the middle class to get away with it. The rich can mimic the poor and not be taken for being poor but the middle class can’t, so the rich steal the poor’s fashion.
There’s a difference between poor, middle-class, and rich. The idea is that the middle class want to mimic the rich to look higher status. The rich don’t want the middle class to get away with it. The rich can mimic the poor and not be taken for being poor but the middle class can’t, so the rich steal the poor’s fashion.
This works with signalling about values as well.
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