Ossified societies guard positional goods more, not less, jealously.
僵化的社会更加嫉妒和警惕着象征地位的商品。
Ossified societies guard positional goods more, not less, jealously.
僵化的社会更加精心的守护着位置商品，而不是相反。
Bostrom: we have to distinguish between positional and non-positional goods.
博斯特罗姆：我们必须区别位置商品和非位置商品。
Arguments against positional goods are no arguments against enhancements as such.
反对位置商品的争论中没有反对这类增强的。
The point about positional goods—and of fashion and brands in general—is their relative attractiveness.
有关地位商品以及一般性的时尚和品牌的价值是它们的相对吸引力。
These "positional goods", as they are called, are in fixed supply: you can enjoy them only if others do not.
所谓的“地位性商品”都是限量供应的，在别人得不到的情况下才是一种享受。
Expensive pictures are primarily what economists call positional goods-things that are valuable largely because other people can't have them.
名贵的画作被经济学家称为地位性商品——这类商品昂贵的价值很大程度是因为其他人无法拥有。
Once they have filled their bellies and put a roof over their heads, people want more of what Fred Hirsch, an economist who worked on this newspaper in the 1950s and 1960s, called “positional goods”.
一旦食可果腹，居有定所，人们就想要更高层次的东西。这就是19世纪五六十年代在该报工作的经济学家Fred Hirsch所谓的“地位商品”。
Once they have filled their bellies and put a roof over their heads, people want more of what Fred Hirsch, an economist who worked on this newspaper in the 1950s and 1960s, called “positional goods”.
一旦食可果腹，居有定所，人们就想要更高层次的东西。这就是19世纪五六十年代在该报工作的经济学家Fred Hirsch所谓的“地位商品”。
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