Article 3V8VB In-depth look at the Financial Times' weekly guide to ostentatious status goods for tasteless one-percenters

In-depth look at the Financial Times' weekly guide to ostentatious status goods for tasteless one-percenters

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Cory Doctorow
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The Financial Times kicked off its "How To Spend It" section in 1967 as a single page in the Saturday issue (then called "A guide to good living"); the section grew to its own glossy magazine over the years, weathering lean years and good ones, and has found its niche half a century later, in an era of mass inequality as a weekly catalog of things that the super rich should buy to demonstrate their dominance over everyone else. (more")

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