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3 years agoThe “two buck Chuck” (three bucks if you’re not in California) is absolutely a perfectly good wine, and anything more expensive is only for special occasions. The nicer box wines are also perfectly good at $20 a box, which is about $5 a bottle.
It’s because the PMC struggle for relative social status leaves no room for morality, or even self-awareness. One’s income and access to future opportunities (and ability to avoid falling into the working class) depends completely on controlling a share of a fixed-size pool of social capital, so social competition is ruthless, and there is no place for empathy or regrets.