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2. Definition from Wikipedia (I had to look it up)
Tue Dec 17, 2024, 06:47 PM
Dec 2024
A Veblen good is a type of luxury good, named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve. The higher prices of Veblen goods may make them desirable as a status symbol in the practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. A product may be a Veblen good because it is a positional good, something few others can own.


Bitcoin maybe.

Bragging rights or seeing a UFO, not unless you can sell these, and sell more of them by increasing the price

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