"Let my dataset change your mindset."
– Hans Rosling

the source text is an early declaration of bancruptcy of the current model of consumption among culturally aware humans.

off-white, the miami banana, the unnamed restaurant from the source text are all examplary for this model.

"Retreat to the immaterial and work with what already exists: meaning."

"'Advanced consumers became obsessed with umami and then ran around trying to collect ever-more-intensifying experiences of it. Things were getting more and more delicious, more and more expensive, and all the while, more and more immaterial."

"The Everything-Bubble"