Shit just struck me that NFT gated culture is a kind of sumptuary culture

Shit just struck me that NFT gated culture is a kind of sumptuary culture https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law

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Or reverse sumptuary rather

Sumptuary culture: If you are king you can wear purple

Reverse sumptuary: If you wear purple you are king

Agree. Interesting how we repeat patterns in creating arbitrary rules and norms.

I hope the transparency around provenance will make NFTs less exclusionary and more a signal of shared interests, etc.

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I don’t mind actually. Might be interesting to try reverse sumptuary culture.