Re:How dense is your city?
by ars on Sunday March 03, 2024 @11:25PM
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And you can do that with a cheaper watch also. That makes in a Veblen, but a more expensive lawn is not a better lawn. So a lawn is not a Veblen.
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Having a large expansive lawn with rocky features, rare plants, water features, and fish, while being perfectly manicured attached to an estate is a way better lawn than a 12x20 green rectangle in the front of a suburban home's lot.
That's the opposite of what I said. A Veblen good means the same item, if priced higher, is somehow more desirable.
But you've described a more expensive lawn that is actually better, which makes it a normal good.
You are simply wrong about lawns being a Veblen, and you should acknowledge that.