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“I hate luxury for luxury's sake. I find it not…” quote by Hank Green — Download Open image

“I hate luxury for luxury's sake. I find it not just brash but societally disruptive. It's just another mechanism of manufacturing discontent by building a thing that most people want but can never have.”

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