In an earlier post, I wrote about how I enjoyed sleeping. But clearly I am a mere piker in this regard. This article about a Hollywood director convicted of scamming Netflix out of $11 million shows that he must love sleeping much more than me.
Then came the lavish purchases, prosecutors said, with Rinsch buying five Rolls-Royces and one Ferrari, along with $652,000 on watches and clothes. He also bought two mattresses for about $638,000 and spent another $295,000 on luxury bedding and linens. In addition, he used some of the money to pay off about $1.8m in credit card bills, prosecutors said.
What? Two mattresses for $638,000? How can that be possible?
Rich people can be so strange. The fact that his purchase of five Rolls Royces was not the most ridiculous thing about him says something about the level of weirdness on display.
Kim Jong Un supposedly has a comforter filled with down combed from the throats of baby songbirds.
It’s not as nice as my waterbed full of MAGA tears but it probably cost a lot.
Maybe he is one of those shape-shifting lizard people that rule the world? He needs a soft bed when he is dozing off during winter, I think it is called brumation when reptiles do it.
>What? Two mattresses for $638,000? How can that be possible?
I think I had this reaction when my spouse expressed interest in buying an LV bag and then seeing my reaction , told me that there were in fact even more expensive handbags.
So much of this is just status/or a flex rather than utility or quality -- which is what i suppose you (And I ) expect.
“It’s not as nice as my waterbed full of MAGA tears but it probably cost a lot.” This needs a like button!
#4 rrutis1
+1
@3 Deepak said “So much of this is just status/or a flex rather than utility or quality”
Yep. I believe the proper term is “Veblen Goods”, named after Thorsten Veblen and his book “The Theory of the Leisure Class” (an excellent read, even if it’s 125 years old, and available for free download from multiple sources).
“named after Thorsten Veblen and his book “The Theory of the Leisure Class” (an excellent read, even if it’s 125 years old, and available for free download from multiple sources)”
I’ve got an exclusive edition bound in artisan spider silk and printed in platinum ink, £175,000 (or £250,000 for a signed copy*). Any takers?
*signed by me, not the author, obvs
@jimf @6
Thanks I learnt a new phrase and I cant wait to try it out on my spouse. Also I shall blame you for the aftermath.
The saying “You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar” carried the implication that vinegar-caught flies were less common, and thus more desirable, than honey-caught flies. And therefore, a technological arms race began; with the object of developing a monetisable process to alter the taste of inexpensive, readily-available honey-caught flies, the better to resemble that of the expensive, much rarer vinegar-caught variety. Soon, the only thing harder than buying a fly that had not been subjected to “vinaigrisation” was avoiding the endless news articles on how bad flies were for you, where you remembered there used to have been endless news articles on how good flies were for you not so long ago. The fact that you had never even liked flies anyway; whether they had been caught with honey, vinegar or “dry” between chopsticks, seemed not to matter to anyone.