In my nation (Italy) we have long since "lost the light of reason."
When PUBLIC TV talks about investing in luxury items almost as seriously as WE have been talking about bitcoin for a decade... it's clear we have a serious problem... because... just have a look on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqLRYCKVLmE
It's not normal that with "our" taxes... someone would propose and let similar ideas pass, told as ABSOLUTE TRUTHS:
- Every year, the stock market prices of brand xxx increase by 10% (3:20)
- Investing in a bag is like investing in the stock market (3:25)
- We're talking about a very rare object (a crappy bag anyway...) - it's a real safe haven (WHAT THE HECK??? IS A BAG A SAFE HAVEN?) (3:55)
- As if we had a gold bar in the closet, a ROLEX, a DIAMOND! (4:05) - absurd, said by the RAI JOURNALIST! Remember, these are the same people who openly criticize bitcoin, and are willing to write ANYTHING if they were paid.
- The value has tripled (4:35)
The danger, according to the same report, is "buying a fake item." LOL.
The report previously clearly spoke of the crisis of these items on the "first-hand" market, as they are unnecessarily expensive.
Okay, we can't just talk about the industry's problems, but they basically did a great promotional stunt .
The "Wild West" behind luxury brands: a despicable logic we can no longer accept.
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/07/20/loro-piana-brand-moda-lusso-sfruttamento-grimaldi/8064883/
This same sector, between flea markets, retail sales, and (the article just posted above), practically operates illegally.
It's as if there were now a sort of common thread... everything tangible (see cryptocurrency sector activity in general) is made obscenely complicated, taxed, banned... conversely, sectors that have ALWAYS been opaque, practically sponsored at the national level.
Imagine how many people, seeing something like this, will buy a crappy €1,000 bag convinced they're "investing."
Consider how many people haven't bought bitcoin just because of the hundreds of deaths caused by ---> who would invest in a zombie?
It's a failed system by any measure, increasingly in decline.
I've always noticed this in the pharmaceutical sector; ours has become a country of "consumers," not saints, poets, and navigators!
