though, people will pay an awful lot for a pair of jeans. nordstrom s is charging $425 for a pair of distressed genes with mod attached. you ve written that this is an insult to work or parts of the war on work. what do you mean by that? the last time i was on your show, we talked about the monopoly thing, and you saidn look, th wheelbarrow and the iron haveg, been replaced by a rubber ducky and a penguin. you said keep an eye peeled for other examples of this sort of social war on work. this morning, i woke up and on my facebook wall, somebody was like mike, what do you have to say about this. the truth is, there is not too much to say. we finally got to the point, where not only, not only will people pay $425 for a pair of jeans, but they ll pay for polyurethane fake jeans.
and it is not just the boss, it is us. tucker: that s totally right. though, people were pay an awful lot for a pair of jeans. nordstrom s is charging $425 with mud attached. you ve written that this is an insult to work or parts of the war on work. what do you mean by that? the last time i was on your show, we talked about the monday p p monopoly thing, and you said look, keep an eye peeled for other examples of this sort of social war on work. this morning, i woke up and on my facebook wall, somebody was like mike, what do you have to say about this. the truth is, there is not too much to say. we finally got to the point, we re not only, not only will people pay $425 for a pair of jeans, but they ll pay for poly
euthrane fake jeans. my beef with nordstrom s isn t that they don t value icons of work. they clearly do. my beef is they don t value authenticity. once again, as a country, what do we what the hell are we doing? we re distressed jeans are one thing, but these look like you crawled through a sueewer, thiss what they look like, $425. i could sell you the same ones for $15 and still make a profit. tucker: if you were making the federal minimum wage of $7.25, you have to work for two and a half weeks before taxes to buy one pair of the working man jeans. in order to look leak a working man, right. listen, man, this is a world completely defined right now by fake everything, right. fake news, we don t trust anything that we hear, and part of the problem is because they re screwing with monopoly
fake mod on the jeans. they don t have dirty jobs but they want you to think so. my beef with nordstrom s isn t that they don t value icons of work. they clearly do. my beef is they don t value authenticity. once again, as a country, what do we - what the hell are we doing? we re distressed jeans are one thing, but these look like you crawled through a sewer, this is what they look like, $425. i know. i have crawled through sewers. i could sell you the same ones for $15 and still make a profit. tucker: if you were making the federal minimum wage of $7.25, you have to work for two and a half weeks before taxes to buy one pair of the working man jeans. in order to look like a working man, right. listen, man, this is a world completely defined right now by fake everything, right. fake news, we don t trust anything that we hear, and part of the problem is because they re screwing with monopoly and asking us to buy a pair of pants like these.
so let s just write this down and make it end that way. i just don t think we can do that. but look, i mean, i might also suggest that the country take a little more inward look at itself and try to figure out why it is look, once upon a time in another life, i had a deal with a blue jean company, you know, and part of what i wanted to do was give the consumer a really clear choice between jeans that were made in americav and jeans that were made overseas. they were identical. these jeans. i mean, i could show you the research if you re into the it, but it was remarkable how the price difference was everything. until those two jeans, the american made and the overseas, the identical same price, it was absolutely no push, no incentive for the consumer to buy american. so it is not just the worker, and it is not just the boss, it is us. tucker: that s totally right.