My last post actually made me recall an old post that I had written and I decided to post it here again. In an old blog that I have since removed, I wrote a post about losing perspectives with luxury goods. That we have created a society where people can own (and pay for) a handbag that could feed a quarter of a million children. And that this is considered fashion. At the end of the day, it’s all about perspectives and I think we as a global society seem to loose perspective on consumption.

So what was I referring to? Well, in 2007 Luis Vuitton made 24 copies of their most expensive handbag to date that cost 45 000 USD. They sold out.

To put things in perspective, I looked at Doctors without borders’ homepage and learned that the same amount of money could buy:

Two high-energy meals a day to more than 257,000 children
OR
Infection-fighting antibiotics to treat nearly 18,000 wounded children
OR
Emergency medical supplies to aid 225,000 disaster victims for an entire month