what's wrong with rich people
It was usually cooler to seem poor than seem rich, whatever your status actually was. Indie sleaze is back, I’m told, but the PBR-swilling ‘00s hipster—however affluent underneath the blue-collar disguise—would surely recoil from the $20 espresso martinis that their present-day counterparts celebrate.
Drew Austin • The Culture of Cope
we need to stop normalising credulity when people with power and money and fancy titles say extraordinary things
Rachel Coldicutt • On Understanding Power and Technology
In a world where shipwrecks abound, why are we so obsessed with the Titan and the Titanic ? It’s a combination of panache, prestige, and that classically Greek concept of hubris. Important people went down with both vessels: millionaires, royalty, business tycoons. The splendor of the Titanic ’s Grand Staircase has been rendered in countless
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