excellent analysis

learning the lore from Home Alone was not my first idea this morning

I cannot stop now

Rich people go to Florida too. Also I have known a few fashion designers and they generally fell into the pretend job category. I'm sure there are hard working career focused designers out there, but there are a lot of dilettantes half-assing it as well .

I don't think you can can you apply the insertion figures to calculate house prices because real estate has increased so much faster than everything else in the last two decades. To put it into perspective, I recall as a kid in the 90s, a friend living in a two story house with a pool next to the beach, and that house cost 400k - which seemed like a lot because we lived in a 3bed house on a suburban half acre block which cost under 200k.

I'm in the development office of a tiny city that's an enclave for the super-rich.

It's a different world. We're talking houses with 4 bedrooms but a dozen bathrooms because of all the space taken up by the art galleries, wine cellars, catering kitchens, libraries, etc.

Our city development code has a section on servant's quarters.

I'm reviewing plans for a guest house that's 4,000 square feet and has a rooftop tennis pavilion.

Another one bought the 4 mansions down the street and leveled them to build a private soccer field for the kids.

These people literally don't understand what the rest of the world is like. I'll get angry phone calls demanding that road work be stopped the next city over because they don't want guests to see the construction workers from the north tower's terrace, and they don't understand why that's an unusual request and why I can't fix it.

Also, people look at the years they earned a good amount and think they are in the top 10%, but it's more like 30% of people are in the top 10% at some point in their life.

Meanwhile, the truly rich are paradoxically not in the top 10%, because their wealth grows without incurring capital gains income tax.

It's a totally different world with different rules.

Working class thinks they are rich when they can afford the mortgage for a nice house.

Actual rich have a nice house without a mortgage payment and just have a few multiples of the working class guys salary accrue in a trust. They only take out small amounts for vacations, groceries, a car, etc.

The US was still blissfully ignorant of how we were profiting at the expense of many lesser developed countries (that we had a hand in keeping less developed).

Because genetics?

My rule of thumb when I meet a rich person is that they probably killed someone/something. Arms dealer, environmental engineer who signed off on a mine that killed off an endangered toad, high-end lawyer who got some criminal asshole off the hook, shit like that. Never do I think that someone improved society.

Prove me wrong kids. Prove me wrong.

A politician!

"Thanks Peg."

It was 15 or 17 people and Kevin's uncle paid for it.

Where is that mentioned?

That explains his favorite film... Ya filthy animal.

Thanks for the link. For us plebs:

https://archive.is/2KH2a