How DIY furniture gets you spending more It’s been co-opted by pop culture (think Ke$ha when she first started out, or any number of fast-fashion t-shirts) and borrowed by artists (Salvador Dali fashioned a moustache from it, Andy Warhol rendered it in acrylic and silkscreen, creating an iconic body of work that itself now sells for $$). It’s shorthand for the American dream and all the consumerism and commodification that comes with it, signifying at once sunny aspiration, splashy greed and rampant capitalism. The dollar sign is among the world’s most potent symbols, emblematic of far more than US currency. Read all of the year's biggest hits here. As we head into 2020, we're running the best, most insightful and most essential Worklife stories from 2019.
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