But you can't have the best pizza in the world without potentially spending thousands of dollars to get yourself to Naples.
That's an extreme example, but I assume those economists mean that almost any category of good can reach arbitrary levels of consumption. If I had several billion dollars, my pizza acquisition budget might literally be 1000x what it is now.
Maybe, but I doubt it. And a holiday to Naples is not pizza, it's a holiday to Naples. In virtually every respect worth speaking of, they are entirely different products.
But you can't have the best pizza in the world without potentially spending thousands of dollars to get yourself to Naples.
That's an extreme example, but I assume those economists mean that almost any category of good can reach arbitrary levels of consumption. If I had several billion dollars, my pizza acquisition budget might literally be 1000x what it is now.