Cardi B blamed Donald Trump for ruining her pricey footwear at Sunday's Super Bowl game, and she demanded the return of her deported uncle to make up for it.
For a while, I used to sometimes pack up wealthy people’s stuff as part of my job. At one point I was packing up wineglasses that were, no joke, about a foot and a half (0.5m) tall made of thin crystal. When the job was done, the guy gave the workers checks for $500, as a tip.
Those are about $200-300 each if they are the glasses I expect they are. They don’t make that much of a difference from the $75 glass. That $75 glass is an improvement over the $25 glass but that really depends on if you are putting any effort into tasting.
There’s tons of conspicuous consumption that goes on just to prove how much money that consumer has. But there’s also those rich people who do the “buy it once” thing. They’ll spend a mint on a durable, handmade pair of shoes that last 20 years, and then they’ll get them re-soled for less than a new pair would cost.
Those are just reasonable people and I have never met one that has been rich that way through frugality alone and anywhere near the level of wealth of those that aim to show it off even if the frugal person’s bank account is far more in the green than the consumerist.
No of course not: the rich get rich because they acquire lots of money (usually via inheritance, but whatevs). I didn’t claim frugality can make a person rich, just that some rich people are frugal, in contrast with the conspicuous consumers we most often hear about, nor am I advocating it as a financial strategy. Being rich makes a person an asshole, but it doesn’t necessarily make them the kind of person who’ll buy $3,000 shoes that don’t work.
Martini glasses:
Art deco French cocktail ware from the 1920s designed to be dumb but bold and it’s ease of breaking showed a wealth during a terrible time.
Wealthy people love to break their stuff almost on purpose to make sure it stays special and then regular people buy into it
I gave my dad riedel crystal martini glasses twenty five years ago. He still has 3 of the 4. Some people take care of stuff they own.
For a while, I used to sometimes pack up wealthy people’s stuff as part of my job. At one point I was packing up wineglasses that were, no joke, about a foot and a half (0.5m) tall made of thin crystal. When the job was done, the guy gave the workers checks for $500, as a tip.
Those are about $200-300 each if they are the glasses I expect they are. They don’t make that much of a difference from the $75 glass. That $75 glass is an improvement over the $25 glass but that really depends on if you are putting any effort into tasting.
There’s tons of conspicuous consumption that goes on just to prove how much money that consumer has. But there’s also those rich people who do the “buy it once” thing. They’ll spend a mint on a durable, handmade pair of shoes that last 20 years, and then they’ll get them re-soled for less than a new pair would cost.
Those are just reasonable people and I have never met one that has been rich that way through frugality alone and anywhere near the level of wealth of those that aim to show it off even if the frugal person’s bank account is far more in the green than the consumerist.
No of course not: the rich get rich because they acquire lots of money (usually via inheritance, but whatevs). I didn’t claim frugality can make a person rich, just that some rich people are frugal, in contrast with the conspicuous consumers we most often hear about, nor am I advocating it as a financial strategy. Being rich makes a person an asshole, but it doesn’t necessarily make them the kind of person who’ll buy $3,000 shoes that don’t work.