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Phones are not conspicuous enough to be a Veblen good. Unless buyers start wearing it on their belt or around their neck.



Which is disproportionately weighted by heavy users. The average user isn't flashing their phone often enough to be conspicuous: https://blog.dscout.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog_posts/Mobile_Touche...




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