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As the market for infant products grows ever more absurd, author Pamela Paul takes on $800 strollers, Gymboree and the bamboozle that is Baby Einstein.
  • Value is Subjective

    People buy $60,000 sedans and McMansions and $800 strollers and all kind of other things that are "unnecessary".

    If we only bought things that are "necessary" we would have a completely different economy. Who is to say if it would be better or worse, but it would be profoundly different.

    Other people wag their fingers and rail against bad taste and excessive consumption.

    And the world keeps turning.

    You simply will never convince everyone that your taste is better than theirs.