{"id":574,"date":"2008-11-17T10:25:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T10:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2008-11-18T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T10:33:32","slug":"you-know-its-bad-when-luxuries-are-discounted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/you-know-its-bad-when-luxuries-are-discounted\/","title":{"rendered":"You know it&#8217;s bad when luxuries are discounted."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a case of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7725589.stm\">Chateau Lafite Rothschild has dropped by 25% in the past few months<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s still too expensive.\u00a0 But that drop is a sign that even the rich are beginning to care about the cost of living.\u00a0 If we see art prices coming off then we&#8217;ll know for sure that the fluff is out of the market, even for the wealthy.\u00a0 That would be no bad thing.\u00a0 But it is a sign of feeling the pain.<\/p>\n<p>It is critical that systems change now so that we manage <a href=\"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=567\">the economic crisis and avert an ecological crisis<\/a>.\u00a0 We must self manage humanity or the meltdown will be excruciating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a case of Chateau Lafite Rothschild has dropped by 25% in the past few months.\u00a0 It&#8217;s still too expensive.\u00a0 But that drop is a sign that even the rich are beginning to care about the cost of living.\u00a0 If we see art prices coming off then we&#8217;ll know for sure that the fluff is &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/you-know-its-bad-when-luxuries-are-discounted\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You know it&#8217;s bad when luxuries are discounted.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-9g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}