The Moustache of Understanding "Monetizes his closet"

Will wonders never cease?
Just when you thought that Thomas Friedman could not possibly get more tone-deaf, he one-ups himself, and puts forth a dazzler, a gem, a masterpiece like today's exercise in awesomeness - "Monetizing your closet"
We first have Tracy DiNunzio extolling the wonders of Tradesy

“We have a section on the site for wedding attire,” she explained. “We have seen three brides wear the same dress.” The first bought a Vera Wang wedding dress for $8,000 and then sold it on Tradesy for $3,000. The second wore it and resold it for $3,000. “So the bride in the middle of that trade wore her $8,000 Vera Wang wedding dress for free.”...“For those at the cutting edge of this trend, durable goods are viewed as temporal objects to enjoy and pass on rather than ‘belongings.’ Personally, I no longer feel like I ‘own’ anything. I enjoy my consumer goods for a day, a week or a year, take good care of them because I assume they’ll go on to have another life with someone else, then share or sell whatever I’m tired of. I get access to goods and services that would typically be beyond my means, without accumulating a ton of stuff.”

Which makes complete sense, doesn't it?  I mean, we all have $8000 Vera Wang Wedding dresses that we are done with, and can pass on to someone else, so that we can
(a) casually write off $5000, and
(b) Use the $3000 to buy a Prada purse with, no?
As Lisa Needham puts it

we found it impossible to monetize our 15-year-old VW Jetta with all the door trim peeled off, both because no one else wanted the thing and because we couldn’t leverage its assetness to buy another car because if we were that person, we would have just had money to buy a fucking car.

Amen.
Mind you, this entire column is a riff on entrepreneurship, and is about

a wave of entrepreneurs who’ve been buoying our economy from below, at a time when so much national economic policy has been paralyzed. These risk-takers never got the word that China will eat our lunch or Germany will eat our breakfast, so they just go out and start stuff, and build stuff, and invent stuff — and create 20 jobs here and 30 jobs there

What he absolutely leaves off the list is that DiNunzio above started Treadsy by going massively into debt - credit card debt, which is exactly what all the risk-takers and entrepreneurs should be doing right?
Creating jobs on credit-card debt?
Because that will never come to a bad end, right?
Because the realization that 75% of startups fail clearly has no meaning in this conversation, right?  We should be happily celebrating the lottery winners, feting them on talk shows, while ignoring the telephone-book sized list of people that lost the lottery, because, hey, losing is for losers, right?
Real winners marry billionaires I guess...

Then again, I guess we should be grateful that he didn't actually talk to any taxi-drivers this week :-)
I leave you with the Thomas Friedman OpEd Generator - may it bring you as much joy as it has brought me...