Beyond the immediate knee-jerk responses, though, Scott appears to have designed a pair of trainers that actually carry a deep social statement about the enslaving nature of consumerism.
Those shackles might spark a discussion about the character and psychology of consumerism today, and the relationship between brands and consumers.
His idealisation of an ascetic lifestyle and explicit denunciations of consumerism are clearly hard to reconcile with his multimillionaire status.
Snaking down a narrow, crowded street, with plastic signs in Cantonese overhead, it feels exactly as you imagine Hong Kong should, and it's easy to be swept away on a wave of giddy consumerism.
Since the end of the cold war, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
But places such as Edmonton (and Croydon and Acton) remind us of the capital's role as a site of production, not just exotic consumerism.
There were sharp observations on Christmas consumerism and quietly furious political asides.
Vince Cable, one of the few at Westminster to have warned in advance of debt-fuelled consumerism, has already been elevated to that status.
And as of 1917, at least some Americans were evidently beginning to recognise that consumerism and mass marketing were teaching them what to want, and that rises of fortune would be measured by the acquisition of status symbols.
No communing with nature or renouncing hollow consumerism: no, I calmed down by assembling an Ikea chest of drawers.
He worries repeatedly about the effects of consumerism on the psychological makeup of the consumer, who may become a "slave" to pleasure, and who may become so caught up in a cycle of false pleasure and unsatisfying satisfaction as to lose touch with any real needs: "Why do you have property overseas?
