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Hilarious even by your standards of comedy gold. Isn't it odd that poor people know a great deal about how the rich live but the rich know bugger all about the lives of the poor?
You don't have to live next door to them to know about their fabulous houses, their yachts, their cars, their jewelry their this that and the fucking other. And it did not used to be like this; this grotesque flaunting of gaudy excess, the half a million pound watches and the 100,00 pound holidays was never so visible. There were always rich people, famous people, there was always inequality. But there has been a huge shift in the way it is depicted, celebrated and held up to being the most worthwhile life that anyone can lead, the life that we should aspire to.
It's one thing to be poor, it's another to be poor in a society that only seems to give value not just to wealth but enormous wealth and pretty much blames the have-nots for their inability to join in the party.