On Feb 11, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Michael McIntyre wrote:
> If you're rich and want to work, why bother to work for money?
The upper class used to think that way, or so it seems to me - rich men might work in publishing, or write poetry, and women had their charity projects. That doesn't look to be true anymore; like I said the other day, socialites now want to give the impression of working, to the point where even the largely useless Tinsley Mortimer has a handbag line. My working theory of this transition is that the old WASP ethic of "stewardship" and "service" has been replaced by the arriviste ethic of profit maximization.
Doug