Keith dismissed: > At 12:32 29/10/2010 +0200, Chris wrote: > >Keith challenged: > > > Find me a new consumer product that's highly desirable by the > > > rich, very expensive -- say, equivalent to what the car was in the > > > 1910s/20s -- but capable of repeated phases of mass production until it > > > reaches down to everybody in due course. > > >How about space tourism? > >Mark Shuttleworth paid 20m, now it's getting cheaper... > > About as attractive for most as bungee-jumping I'd suggest (and that's free!).
Since you always emphasize that people seek STATUS, you should know that space tourism has very high status and gets much more publicity than other ways of wasting money. And it's certainly a much more spectacular personal experience than a silly jump, which is just a brief adrenaline kick. --- Keith went on to dismiss MG: > Michael is of course wrong because mass consumption of experiential goods > requires plenty of discretionary time and money -- and there'll be little > of the latter for most in the post-prosperity years to come. But your challenge was: "Find me a new consumer product that's highly desirable by the rich". --- Arthur wrote: > When the experience industry experiences 200 barrel oil, packaged mass > travel will mostly consist of people viewing DVDs of far away places. Wait until this one gets mass-packaged: http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Swiss_solar_plane_makes_history_with_round-the-clock_flight_999.html > Of course local experiences will go on, bungee jumping, etc. Legalizing > drugs will also open the door to new industries. Rather, drugs make the desire for ever-bigger "kicks" (incl. travel adventures) even greater! Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
