Having spent the last year feeling increasingly out of place in a world that devalues art and process over expedience and automation, watching “The Last Showgirl” felt like looking in a mirror.

But being a trans woman in a society that devalues womanhood breaks that inherent hierarchy and makes its arbitrariness all the more visible.

That served as a launchpad for an ambitious and unprecedented economic reform programme: he cut taxes, devalued the rupee, privatised state-run companies and encouraged foreign investment.

Yasmin says she now feels her master’s degree has been "devalued".

He criticises society's tendency to devalue complex ideas and how this is part of a general decline in mental and intellectual effort.