Monday, October 25, 2021

No Comment

 NPR: The shoes from Michael Jordan's rookie season sold for a record $1.47 million by Tien Le

4 comments:

Mark said...

"No comment" is, in itself, plenty of comment. I concur.

Jim Sande said...

It's a transaction that is ripe with meaning, and capable of extraordinary analysis along societal, economic, and cultural lines. For example, on one side of the scale you have the totality of an ordinary person who has worked hard for an entire lifetime and has accumulated a certain level of wealth, and on the other side of the scale you have a pair of sneakers.

Jim Sande said...

I forgot to add that the scale still favors the sneakers.

Mark said...

I appreciate your commentary.

It is rich with metaphor and ripe for analysis but I reduce it to simply "the value we place on 'the famous'". No more comment.