‘The capitalism of Like should come with a warning label: Protect me from what I want.’

‘Luxury as a freedom - like play that is truly free - can be thought only beyond the world of work and consumption. Viewed in this light, it stands close to asceticism.’

‘True happiness comes from what runs riot, lets go, is exuberant and loses meaning - the excessive and superfluous.’

unfortunately, outside of these fair declarations, the judgments that were pass from a place of superiority undermined the effectiveness of comparative philosophical discourse.