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For Generation Z, conspicuous thrift has become the ultimate flex. The second-hand trade is booming; the luxury trade, rather ...

Technology will force us to make it clear where perfection genuinely creates value and where it simply removes uniqueness.

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Russia's election fools nobody, which is rather the point. It also hands Putin a stick with which to beat a Ukraine that ...