@conor_holt@LAFilmCritics@claudiapuig @CinemaInMind @TheAmyNicholson @christylemire @katiewalshstx @JustinCChang@IndieFocus@JoeMorgenstern@ChazEbert @ADuralde Film critics hold a special role mediating the phantasmagorical world of the filmmaker and the everyday concerns of the common man: if I spend $10 on this film, will I regret it? They have to appreciate pie-in-the-sky artistry but relate their findings in practical terms.
@Ndiayee0 the execution is crucial, just the right weight, just the right angle, and a very unusual foot movement to get it there. that is, knowing he can make the pass is instrumental to even trying it, even imagining it
This 1679 “Sabionari” Stradivarius is the only playable guitar by Antonio Stradivari left in this world.🤗
So take just a moment to hear a sound that’s well over 300 years old!👇❤️🔥
"The future is not a place we are going to, but a place we are creating. The path to it is not found, but built, and the act of building it changes both the builder and the destination."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I love how the FT frames affordable food as some sort of aggression...
The real question to be asked here - which the FT doesn't cover - isn't "how could China dare make caviar cheaper" but rather why Europeans kept it artificially expensive for decades (or simply didn't even try to scale).
This is actually a fantastic case study in rent-seeking. There isn't any particular reason why caviar was meant to be expensive. As a matter of fact caviar originally gained popularity as a lowly staple food for peasants in Persia and Russia.
The way to make it isn't particularly exotic: it's sturgeon aquaculture - clean water, controlled breeding, patience. Time-intensive, yes (sturgeons take 7-20 years to mature), but not fundamentally different from other fish farming. There's no secret technique that justified luxury pricing.
So the actual interesting story to investigate here is rather why it took the Chinese to say: "wait, this is just fish farming, why are people being charged gold prices for it?"
But no, true to form, the FT's sympathies lie with the rent-extractors who got punished for their greed, not the consumers who can now afford caviar.