Cultural goods and tools under the dominance of the wealthy
When people's cultural consumption is discussed, attention must be paid to what effects and constraints financial issues and material barriers create for access to cultural goods and tools. On this basis, Iranian households' cultural spending has been examined by income decile.
The largest cultural spending in Iranian society, totaling 141 thousand billion tomans, belongs to the three highest income deciles, and the gap between the tenth decile and other segments of society in cultural consumption is very striking.
Also, the average cultural spending of the tenth and first income deciles from 1396 to 1401 (2017–2023) has been examined, and the results indicate a 50 percent decline in cultural spending and a downward trend in Iranian households' expenditure on culture.
Has your cultural spending declined as well?
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian