I don't get the moral part. Please elaborate.
Man, you're gonna mach zich nisht visindik aren't you. I tried to be subtle but you wanna play the game. Alright. I apologize beforehand because what's about to come out is gonna look like a flame. But I assure you, my dear brother, that this is not what I intended when I started this conversation. You just had to push... Oh dear. Here it comes...
Unless you have some bizarre foot ailment where your podiatrist has to prescribe you special orthopedic shoes where they actually take a mold of your foot to make it, rachmana litzlan, then there is absolutely no practical reason why shoes should cost SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS (even though one poster thought it was cool to say that he knows "many people" who have $600 shoes and you seemed to be happy to be one of them.) It's poshut vanity and it's a shod af yiddishe gelt and it goes into the same category as champaign enemas and Yankees tickets.
But to be melamed z'chus, I am impressed that you wanted to be mekayem k'pshuto the Gemara "l'olam yimkor adam koros beiso v'yikneh m'naalim l'raglav."
I gotta go drink some seltzer now.