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Reading Magazine, No. 3, 2025. The History of Show-Offs – Reading – 2025 – ISBN 461046755001525003

Reading Magazine, No. 3, 2025. The History of Show-Offs
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Almost since its inception, humanity has been divided into social groups. These groups are based on race, age, and, most importantly, wealth and social status. At various stages of development, society has had its own status symbols: shells, sable tails, spices, gold, fur coats, diamonds. Later, all of these transformed into personal palaces, expensive Rolls-Royces, and other signs of class inequality. We simply call them "show-offs." In the new issue, the CHTIV editorial team decided to explore the genesis of human show-offs. How and why do people strive to demonstrate "I'm not like everyone else?" Is this good or bad? Moral or immoral? We will explore what consumer society is and how it emerged. We will recall Russia's most notorious figures—from the Mamontovs to Prince Yusupov. We will explore the structure of the rented life—from renting bouquets of flowers and cars to selling empty shopping bags from expensive boutiques on marketplaces. In a conversation with cover hero Artemy Lebedev, we'll find out which nation is the most ostentatious in the world, and much more.
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