Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 46, Issue 1
On Feb 11, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Michael McIntyre wrote:
If you’re rich and want to work, why bother to work for money?
The upper class used to think that way, or so it seems to me - rich
men might work in publishing, or write poetry, and women had their
charity projects. That doesn’t look to be true anymore; like I said
the other day, socialites now want to give the impression of working,
to the point where even the largely useless Tinsley Mortimer has a
handbag line. My working theory of this transition is that the old
WASP ethic of “stewardship” and “service” has been replaced by the
arriviste ethic of profit maximization.
Doug