From Victoria Beckham’s working class childhood to gentrification in the streets of Fitzroy Melbourne… what’s with the obsession with appearing less wealthy than you really are? Let's unpack quiet luxury, 'homeless chic', Naarm-core and what this all means in the context of an oligarchy & increasingly splintered leftist spaces...

timestamps:00:00 intro02:42 quiet luxury in different fonts10:31 Naarmcore, gentrification & ‘broke’ students15:54 tall poppy syndrome17:46 romanticisation of poverty20:27 the oligarchy of it all 25:00 the empathy drought27:17 final thoughts

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