Objects of daily use, certainly higher price-end objects of daily use, don't just sell on the basis of what they physically are and what they physically do — possible alternatives are generally far too numerous for such to be decisive in itself — but also sell on their semantics: what the potential purchaser believes an object says about them, how the potential purchaser believes others will read their possession of such an object, the associations the potential purchaser makes in context of a
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