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Scarcity with a velvet rope, so desire feels like destiny.
means The quality of being restricted to a select few, which makes the thing itself seem more valuable or desirable.
from Traces back to Latin excludere — 'ex' (out) plus 'claudere' (to shut or close) — the same root that gives us 'exclude' and 'close.' So exclusivity is etymologically just the state of having shut others out; the velvet rope is built right into the word's bones.
- core trick
- value rises when access does not
- economics term
- Veblen goods defy normal demand curves
- irony
- mass-marketed exclusivity is a contradiction in terms
- real version
- actually just information you cannot buy