Available from the Everyday Objects collection at Tiffany & Co. for $1,135 (engraving extra). It's more expensive than the sterling silver golf tee ($205), but less than sterling silver dog bowl ($3,000).
No editorial comment from me. This is part of the world we live in. Via Harper's.
My secret crazy wish was (still is?), when I get "rich", to get a gold cup, maybe coffee mug size. Or just a sterling silver one, although those are as common as bugs. I ended up with a one liter stainless steel cup that I bought a 99 cents store some years back. I use it every day. Coffee? Yes, I'll have a cup. Just keep pouring until it is full.
ReplyDeleteI would like to point out that the pill box ($900+) with AM and PM compartments has Braille on it. Would a person who needs the Braille know that it wasn't sterling silver?
ReplyDeleteIf you can afford trinkets like that you can afford a sighted assistant to handle the details... maybe a few of them. LoL.
ReplyDeleteThese "trinkets" do not simply appear out of nowhere for people to purchase. Miners have get the silver ore out of the earth (they earn about $70,000/year) The silver has to be separated from the ore (about $55,000/year), the silver is mixed with copper to make sterling (more miners and separating to get the copper), and transported (not free) to a smith (about $55,000/year, considerably more for the few who make these trinkets). So, yeah, these things are silly and very few of us would or could buy them, but plenty of folks like us earn a living making these items for wealthy people to spend their money on. I guess it beats buying drugs?
ReplyDeleteYou didn't mention where the big $$ goes. Alessandro Bogliolo (CEO) $13,000,000. Marc Erceg (CFO) $4,000,000. Philippe Galtie (VP Sales) $4,000,000. etc etc etc.
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They could try donating to charity, or paying taxes at the same rate as us normies. Some have employees that could surely be paid more. Invest in renewable energy generation. Really, even (legal) drugs would be better; at least weed is a renewable resource.
DeleteThey could try donating to charity (do you assume they don't?), or paying taxes at the same rate as us normies (I don't know about you, but I pay taxes at the lowest rate legally possible, much like wealthy people do). Some have employees that could surely be paid more (And some have employees that are paid very well...). Invest in renewable energy generation (The wealthy spend far more money on residential solar power generation than the "normies"). Really, even (legal) drugs would be better; at least weed is a renewable resource (true enough).
DeleteYou make a good point, except the cost to the planet is ignored--and that cost is steep to the point of being terminal. Not because of a few nonsensical items, but because of billions of people living way beyond what the planet can sustainably provide. That is, the aggregate effect of trillions of nonsensical consumer choices.
ReplyDelete"This is part of the world we live in" is, of course, an editorial comment.
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