As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.
The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.
Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren't the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.
Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.
Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle.
The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.
The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.