@failedLyndonLaRouchite the rich are perfectly good at buying prestige and consumption goods they enjoy, and there’s nothing wrong with your enjoying browsing the temples they build to show off and pretend to virtue.

but don’t expect good social outcomes in aggregate from spending motivated by competition to signal virtue and aristocratic patronage. good things come from it, for sure, but relative to even imperfectly democratic state spending the sector is mostly waste.