Economists refuse to use new metrics. Yeah we keep buying “luxury” goods. But that doesn’t mean shit when a daily existence requires stuff like smartphones and laptops that keep going obsolete every 3 years. Are those a luxury when existing in today’s daily life and work requires that I have all this stuff? Is that a fucking luxury? You think I want all this shit? Im happily running linux on my 2012 Mac for all my personal stuff but my work Teams Meet bullshit doesn’t play like that… Put away the old econ textbooks, boomer.
Spanish and Greek food beats Italian. Heck Polish food is way underrated. Also American pizza is better.