I've posted before about the problems that wealth inequality are causing. I could have posted quite a few more, like the 18-million-dollar Toronto mansion that recently sold. I wouldn't mind having a bigger house (preferably one without any stairs), but even if I had the money, I wouldn't buy something like that.
It seems that having a lot of money can go to peoples' heads. This Washington Post article, inspired by the television show, White Lotus (which I have not watched) that has many examples of how money can turn people into assholes. Read it to know what not to do when you win the PowerBall lottery.
Sandra Weinacht, a travel planner and co-owner of Inside Europe Travel Experiences, regularly hears stories of extreme behavior from friends and business connections who work in Europe’s five-star hotels.
She says a hotelier in France told her that they had a guest request a huge amount of Sanpellegrino to be delivered from Italy in the same day. No other sparkling water would do; it had to be Sanpellegrino — and not because the guest loved the taste.
“His Russian client needed that water to wash her hair, and it could not be Perrier,” Weinacht says. “It had to be Sanpellegrino.”
Does this perhaps remind you of 1789?
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