Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
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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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Or reverse sumptuary rather Sumptuary culture: If you are king you can wear purple Reverse sumptuary: If you wear purple you are king
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zxy
@zelinarxy
they made the laws cause the merchants were wearing noble attire (and marrying broke nobles and buying titles) and that made them noble sumptuary laws never worked. they were just arostocratic screeching we’re embracing reality
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