Monday, November 10, 2014
How the 0.1% spend their money
mariyam | 8:05 AM | business | economics | sociology | videoSotheby's expects the bidding for this "supercomplication" watch to reach $17,000,000.
A video at the Wall Street Journal, which I can't embed, attempts to explain why this watch is worth that much money. It doesn't address the question of why a person should spend this amount of money on a watch rather than, for example, improving the world in some meaningful way.
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