So many of the country’s best and brightest engineers are designing meaningful solutions to significant problems – climate change, alternative energy sources, medical research, earth-saving environmental innovations. Some, however, are not. They’re applying their gifts to new products that, well, are of somewhat dubious benefit at best. A catalog arrived yesterday of, shall we say, high-end products that are interesting and curious. These are pretty costly, and quite frankly, don’t really seem to be filling a niche in the marketplace. As I was leafing through the pages, I wondered who actually bought these items. And, of greater importance, who has or is making so much money that they really consider some of these items “essential consumerism”. For example:
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