Aesthetic improvements have filtered down beyond the rich to mass-market retailers like Target, which use designers to enhance products and brand—demonstrating aesthetics is not merely a rich-person status symbol.

factualpending

Speaker

Russ Roberts

Evidence Quote

aesthetic design, beauty um sensory sensorily pleasurable stuff is not just going to the the rich who use it as a status symbol but has filtered down into places like Target.

Source

Virginia Postrel on Style 11/27/2006EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:31:39 AM

My Notes

Loading notes...