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Sitting Pretty: The Economics of Lavatorial Luxury

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In a world still sorting through the psychological wreckage of pandemic-era sourdough and performative stoicism, it was perhaps inevitable that someone would gild the toilet seat. What was not anticipated — least of all by the analysts at Morgan Stanley, who had their models trained on rather different luxury vectors — was that the gilded toilet seat would become, by mid-2026, a more reliable leading indicator of consumer sentiment than the Conference Board's entire survey apparatus.