Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Walker Evans and James Agee worked on this book about the people of the first great depression in the 30's. Pictures and words of poverty, the dust bowl, and a time before the current social safety net.
A TIME MAGAZINE parody of the situation in 2006 was the "desperate plight of the merely rich to keep up with the new super rich. An investment banker is upset to realize that he makes less than a former colleague who runs a hedge fund and less than an outfielder for the Mets who hit .260. Or the women disturbed that she delivers her kids to the Country Day School in a 2006 Escalade rather than a 2007 Porsche Cayennes.
It costs a lot of money to support this kind of lifestyle and like the New York Times said I guess we are having a revolt of the fairly wealthy and a second front in class warfare.
Are these people the job creators? I think they have just set a new level of conspicuous consumption fueled by low tax rates and working the system rather than creating jobs or paying off the national debt.
A TIME MAGAZINE parody of the situation in 2006 was the "desperate plight of the merely rich to keep up with the new super rich. An investment banker is upset to realize that he makes less than a former colleague who runs a hedge fund and less than an outfielder for the Mets who hit .260. Or the women disturbed that she delivers her kids to the Country Day School in a 2006 Escalade rather than a 2007 Porsche Cayennes.
It costs a lot of money to support this kind of lifestyle and like the New York Times said I guess we are having a revolt of the fairly wealthy and a second front in class warfare.
Are these people the job creators? I think they have just set a new level of conspicuous consumption fueled by low tax rates and working the system rather than creating jobs or paying off the national debt.
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