Re: Paris getting ready for jail
On Jun 2, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
I’ve never agreed with this division. Rentiers are a subsection of the capitalist class, not another class. They do own capital, and their
use of it may always shift. Surely David Rockefeller and John D.
Rockefeller III wre not in different classes.
Class, or subclass, is partly what you do. There’s a difference
between being actively engaged in production in some sense and purely
living off income. Their interests aren’t always the same. David
Rockefeller worked all his life. He was the chairman of Chase. If
that doesn’t make you a capitalist I don’t know what does. Paris
Hilton mostly lives off the income from inherited wealth. She’s
turned her celebrity into cash through endorsements - and, as a
friend of mine once put, when you’re rich enough you never have to
pay for anything. Paris is that kind of rich.
It’s interesting that today’s rentier girls do want to give the
appearance of working. Tinsley Mortimer has a handbag line, of course.
Doug