It would all be hilariously funny if these people weren’t destroying the world.Elvis Costello on, I think, the same set of idiocy, in the Greek sense:
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Kings of America
Paul Krugman on the hyperwealthy lamenting their hyperwealth because it's only 300k and not 500k
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The weird thing about all the conspicuous consumption is I don't think they are getting that much bang for their buck anyway. At least happiness studies seem to show that once you get to a certain level of income there is a diminishing return on how much happiness you can buy, and perhaps trying to make more money might even work against being happy, given that it probably takes time away from things that the person might actually like doing.
ReplyDeleteWhich I think is why the rich are so busy trying to inflict misery on everyone else.
It's not about their happiness and our misery; it's about their power and our powerlessness.
ReplyDeleteTrue that
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