“I think people making five million dollars to 10 million dollars definitely don’t think they are making enough money,” she told me. “Wouldn’t it be nice to fly private? There are so many things you can aspire to, even making five million dollars a year. For the lower rung of this crowd, these people set up lives for themselves they can’t afford. They are broke and maxed out on their credit cards in December, just like middle-class couples living on one hundred thousand dollars. I don’t think the feel that rich. They are trying to play with the high-rollers, and there are things they can’t do, and they feel deprived, which is completely sick and absurd, but that’s the truth of the matter.”
- “The 1 percent war”, Reuters Magazine
My heart bleeds for these ‘deprived’ millionaires.
