Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Is The Luxury Goods Bubble About to Burst?" video.

The greatest irony of this is, you can have your clothes and leather goods made bespoke for less than you pay for an off the rack designer item. I know - I tailor bespoke historical men's suits entirely by hand, they cost about $5000 and they should easily last you 30 years of regular wear.
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@TheSushiandme The thing is, its really not good quality. Its OK. But for $500 you can get a fabric artist or weaver to make you a unique piece that will last you a lifetime. But it wont say I PAID $500 FOR THIS and that's is what you are really buying with designer names.
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@TheSushiandme if you want to see luxury - that jacket Patrick is wearing is bespoke and hand crafted from a style around 1910. No one else on the planet has that jacket, or even one very similar to it.
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I TAILOR BESPOKE men's historical suits 1890-1930 entirely by hand - I feel deeply sorry for people who are defining their value as a person by the designer label on their clothes. They are being lied to in SO many ways 1) its not that good quality 2) it says nothing good about you as a person 3) you are NOT part of the elite 4) you would have been way better investing the money in a mutual fund 5) buying this sh!t is making you miserable cos ever 1 item you have there are 20 you don't 6) buying this sh!t is keeping you poor.
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@albundy3929 Only peasants follow trends. Its partly what keeps them peasants. When you grow up and if you are successful enough to have your clothes made bespoke you will care more about it fitting your son after you die than you will it being trendy. FYI - It wont be trendy, no bespoke tailor will agree to make anything "trendy"
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DESIGNER GOODS MAKE TERRIBLE INVESTMENTS they are nearly always made of natural perishable materials that require very VERY specific storage conditions E.G. I have a pair of John Lobb Shell cordovan double monk strap shoes I bought in 2008, I really wear them, in the bag in the box - got them out, the coating on the leather has stuck to the fabric of that bag and ruined them.
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And as a past owner of 4 Rolex watches, they are just NOT as good as people think. They get away with it cos younger wanabbies [like me at the time] had never seen a propper luxury watch like a grand Seiko ot A. Lange & Söhne Yes they are mass produced.
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@PriHL Being philosophical about it, can we really blame people when western capitalist society teaches people their worth as human being is defined by how much money they spend...?? At 22 when I got my first really well-paying job I bought a Rolex Submariner. 22 years after that I finally realised I had not bought it coe it was a good watch, not bought it cos I liked it. I bought it cos I came from a poor family and I wanted to prove I was someone. The even sadder thing it, it impressed so many people and it did prove I was SOMEONE. Way more than me being a good and honest person ever did LOL
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@PriHL I agree 100% with every word of that. Yes we are reaching the end of the capitalist experiment. There are hard and strange times ahead. Some form of UBI will be needed as we cant have 30% of people unemployed as AI takes over. And we need to solve the climate crisis. I genuinely have no idea what the world will look like in 25 years.
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suck that crypto d!ck bro "Maybe coinbros are buying smart watches with their impressive crypto gains?" You know that for every $1 a "coinbro" makes another coinbro loses $1 right...???
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