By: Amirreza Etasi
While Iranians endure chronic crisis and eroding purchasing power, patterns of social consumption such as dining out, domestic travel, and maintaining an appearance of well-being persist with remarkable intensity, an irrational allocation of scarce resources. But that is both superficial and insufficient.
This phenomenon, “performative …
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