Muzie

The End of Excess

???

"Last night I ate at a very expensive new downtown restaurant; it was packed."

Wait, so everybody else but YOU in that restaurant is living an escapist dream and can't afford to be there, right? Oh, wait, you probably just went there for "journalistic" reasons.

Maybe the new "excess" is now every Joe Schmoe believes their neighbor is an evil ex-hedge fund do-nothing who possibly can't have worked for the cash they actually use to pay for what they consume. Of course, everybody thinks "I can afford what I consume, but the neighbors are obviously living WAY beyond their means, right?". After all we've all peeked in their bank accounts.

Some of us actually pay for what we consume, you know, and earn the cash to pay for it with actual work, thank you very much.