1/ as with the idiotic Chelsea Clinton who said "I've never worried about wealth" without realizing that she was SIGNALLING HOW !@#-ING RICH AND POWERFUL SHE WAS, even contemplating saying "I disdain mere things" is an implicit claim to huge wealthhttps://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1286058348815630336 …
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5/ Neal Stephenson had a good bit in Cryptonomicon where a protagonist's house burns down or something, and his cousins take him in and try to live really cheap on Slim Jims as they roadtrip ... because they assume that your house / trailer = 100% of your wealth
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6/ ...and not just one instantiation or embodiedment of something much more abstract and shadowy.
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the rich rarely own a particular thing for long. they are forever replacing, upgrading, and redecorating. their connection to objects is different even in their ownership.
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