At Family Altar, 'Elite Cram School Bag' Takes Pride of Place Over 'Ancestors'. Homecoming Status-Flexing Reaches Absurd Inflation
This year, the relative everyone bowed to most was not the uncle who returned in a luxury foreign car, but the nephew carrying a dirty backpack from a top prep school. With 'dirt = visualization of effort,' second-hand bags with a 'do not clean' notice are trading on flea market apps at five times the price of new ones. Though it contains only a Nintendo Switch and potato chips, the grandfather shed tears and worshipped the logo, calling it a 'future government bond.'
