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Or you could sell a bottle of the juice of fermented grapes for hundreds of dollars (but you have to call it 'wine' or it will never sell) or double the price of a motorcycle if you slap a 'Harley Davidson' designation on it or get millions for a piece of canvas smeared with some paint by an insane Dutch guy who cut off his own ear.
And yet for some reason those things are all perfectly accepted, while the paper clip is sneered at. In fact, within this story about this paper clip is a lesson about how we value things.
Yeah.
It'd be interesting to look through the purchase history of the people who have posted in this thread
It's not a paper clip, it's a money clip shaped like a paper clip. I wouldn't buy it but it's not an outrageous price for a luxury name brand money clip.
It's not a paper clip, it's a money clip shaped like a paper clip. I wouldn't buy it but it's not an outrageous price for a luxury name brand money clip.
When I googled this looking for a good story there was a similar money clip for $30. I don't think Prada is even original with this idea.
This screams new money. The type of person who makes a cool $200 grand a year, but has no real assets to speak of and rent and luxury car lease use up most of their paycheck.
My dad had a colleague/friend who was old money Connecticut. He never used credit cards and just kept a wad of cash in his corduroy sport jacket rolled up with a rubber band.
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