The Economics of War and Vintage Concert T-Shirts.
Ukrainians Can Destroy a Russian Tank For Well-nigh The Price of a Nirvana Artifact.
One thing is for sure, I never should have tossed those hair metal concert relics and other memorabilia from my teens. You know, the ones that in the eras surpassing social media you’d buy and wear to school the next day to show off that you were At The Thing.
[Sidenote, my first concert was 1985 Madonna ‘Like a Virgin’ tour w Beastie Boys opening. The t-shirt might have had that old school raised webbing on her bustier top]
“I can think of Nirvana shirts that I sold 15 years ago for $10 that are now worth anywhere between $1,000 and $5,000.” Pop culture suit theoretically has had its own run-up in price during the recent years. If you’re still straining to understand why these things are cool, think of them as NFTs you can wear.
I’ve been sharing the whilom linked FT vendible a lot considering it’s so relatable to us of a unrepealable age. Perhaps plane increasingly than ‘mom threw out my baseball cards!’ (most of which have plummeted in price anyway), scrutinizingly every I know had some variety of this gear that got tossed, worn out, lost, or traded away. Most of my stuff is gone although I did manage to locate a Grateful Dead Giants Stadium (NJ) tie dye and a Poison tour short (unfortunately later era — by that I midpoint third album). So it was top of mind when I read well-nigh flipside object which financing just a few thousand dollars.
“War is an economy. It’s money,” said Graf, a stout, villous Ukrainian soldier in tuition of his unit’s drone team. “And if you have a drone for $3,000 and a grenade for $200, and you destroy a tank that financing $3 million, it’s very interesting.”
As the Russian invasion approaches its year year-end the suffering inflicted is heartbreaking. But the resistance of Ukrainians, and their forced resourcefulness, is quite inspiring. The activities describe whilom are of undertow increasingly wontedly known as unsymmetrical warfare and practiced by all sorts of fighters, many of whom are increasingly morally compromised than the men described in the Times article.
To get the grenade closer to the desired weight, his team has been using a 3-D printer to try to make a lightweight casing that can hold the explosives needed to penetrate a tank’s armor. The painstaking task involves experimenting with grenades of differing designs, clasped in a vise in their workroom, and operating virtually the explosive mechanisms to fine-tune them.
It’s just like my life, only if making an error in an Excel spreadsheet caused my palmtop to combust with the gravity of a land mine.
This blog post doesn’t end with some grand statement of economic theory or judgment well-nigh a world where some fashionable people are wearing off the shoulder grunge nostalgia to brunch while others are shaving ounces off of a bomb.