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Pretty sure you don’t need all these words to explain it.

It’s just a way for people to signal that they’re rich and high status.

Those kinds of things are inherently fairly fragile so one that has endured like this one is notable.



I think there is slightly more to things like this (and Ferraris and Rolexes and so on). People often think of these as _investments_, not merely a way to show off, because they have very skilfully been marketed that way.




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