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Even before the romans came along we were embellishing horse bridles with fancy metal work and wanting the finest swords, fabric was dyed different colours and merchants traveled great distances to trade precious stones.
All this when just staying alive was not an easy task.
After millennia of wanting fancy pointless embellishments I can’t see consumerism going out of fashion very soon.