Bottle of booze sells for $54,000 at NYC auction

Nice article. I couldn't agree more about it being absurd to drop that kind of money on liquor. Seems they could just donate to a charity and buy some top-shelf instead. To each his own though.

Of course there's also the World's Most Expensive Organic Martini...

like the pictures. nice story.

i have spent time to think about luxury articles, such as diamonds, collectors items, and the like.

i do not yet know if it is completely good or bad- for sure, in north korea, such a liqour can not exist- because private ownership in this dimension is not allowed!

means, the police would confiscate such an item the same day.

maybe the answer is, that such items (including luxury auctions, jewels), are a function of capitalist society, to shift capital from one party to another? means, the trade of such items is not only about the items itself, but a very essence of the system. it does matter that so much money is invloved, even if common people think this is sick. rich people will not think that it is sick!

OK what i understand is, that rich people also have high costs, it can be difficult to maintain the large houses, cars, planes. if they run out of cash, they trade away their items! it is true that the value of such a liqour is not for real- but imaginary, it represents (potential) capitalistic buying power, as you wrote, two cars. maybe the elite relies on the situation to nourish such refined feelings, as to drink such a whiskey time by time. OKOK i am not an expert for luxury, but generally, i like golf, at least, in some zones of the world. even if personally, i only know it from computer simulation.

no for real, i spent a long time why (especially jewish) people trade small pieces of carbon, called diamonds, do not produce any real goods, such as machines or food, and get that rich. i do not say good or bad, but that it is a function of capitalist society, which developed self-contained requirements over the time.

i think people should argue in form of mind-experiement about such a liqour- not just say "good" or "bad". OK maybe it is a perversion of hard alcohol- but history has shown, that some of us want this hard alcohol, and to prohibit the trade is not possible. sure such a liqour is not consumed wrapped in brown paper, in parks, etc., but also requires selected scotch glass drinking garniture, and an appreciate saloon.

you see, it is easily possible to extraxt a small story from such an item!