Globalism has reduced the value of goods so quickly that people have trouble processing this change, paying more for storage units than the value of the items they keep there. Elites understand this, which is why when you first walk into our houses, it takes a while to figure out if we just moved in or have lived there for twenty years. A New Yorker cartoon from 2015 shows a couple sitting on two chairs drinking wine in a huge empty space with the caption, “Only the rich can afford this much nothing.”
