Onion peeling eye mask sign of advanced capitalism

My brother will be 39 on Saturday. He is impossible to buy presents for because he doesn't want or need anything. And like most of us in the UK, if he does really,really want something he can probably buy it himself anyway rather than having to wait to be given it as a present. So, as is the typical present-buying dilemma, that just leaves fripperies and coming up with new needs and wants that the recipient never dreamed they had. I was delighted then to discover in John Lewis, at a ridiculous £15.99 an 'onion-eye-peeling mask'. Which is little more than a pair of white sun-glasses with clear plastic frames and a little bit of plastic round the sides to stop fumes upsetting our poor little twenty first century wealthy-nation eyes. Seeing this as a symbol of advanced capitalism gone insane, I just had to have it. He needs it as much as he needs a new pair of socks or another box of Thornton's rather grim-tasting chocolates. The perfect present for the person living in modern Britain who has everything. I want one for myself.