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.

It’s like an extension of the NFTs as Veblen goods thesis. We have (had?) desirable NFTs already, so the next question is what culture will continue to be built on it.

Something more than “numba go up.”