What has always seemed funny to me is that people who are massively wealthy need a magazine to know what they need to buy to, I guess, "impress" whoever people in that position need to impress.
Now, if you win the lotto and get $100 million overnight and you have been poor all your life and live in a shack, I can see where you might need some help spending it all, and evidently you will if the many reports of such things are true.
But, if you are a typically wealthy person, you probably fall into one of two categories: inherited it over generations and you realize that great wealth brings both choices and responsibilities, or nouveau riche, which means you got it recently and are baffled by what to do with it, so you by a MAGAZINE(???) to help you acquire whatever you are told "rich" people need to acquire to do whatever it is you think they do:
"Hey, baby, we need to git onea these here million-dollar cars and eat dinner at this place that charges $5000 for lunch. Grab your shawl and let's git a-movin'!)
Since I have lived in both Palm Beach and Boca Raton for the last 47 years, I can tell you a couple of truths:
1. (From Mom): No matter how much YOU have, someone next door has a lot more. Calm down.
2. People who have massive inherited or new wealth are typically either working everyday to maintain their business(es) or working with charities to best support those less fortunate, which means pretty much everyone else on the planet.
Finally, a story from my college roommate: Driving down the street in Palm Beach one day on a visit, he saw Ted Kennedy coming out of their house in the North End. My roommate could not get over the fact that he was driving a 5-year-old Ford station wagon--remember them? I tried to explain to him that these people would no more buy a fancy foreign car or even a top-of-the-line American car than they would jump off a bridge. They passed that phase 5 generations ago, and today are concerned with service and helping others.
I guess the Robb Report and Peak and so forth are read by "wanna-bees" and others like me who like to see nice stuff...and I am sure there are some mega-wealthy people who read them. I doubt you would see such stuff in houses where the wealth is a responsibility and not a novelty.
Cheers!
Now, if you win the lotto and get $100 million overnight and you have been poor all your life and live in a shack, I can see where you might need some help spending it all, and evidently you will if the many reports of such things are true.
But, if you are a typically wealthy person, you probably fall into one of two categories: inherited it over generations and you realize that great wealth brings both choices and responsibilities, or nouveau riche, which means you got it recently and are baffled by what to do with it, so you by a MAGAZINE(???) to help you acquire whatever you are told "rich" people need to acquire to do whatever it is you think they do:
"Hey, baby, we need to git onea these here million-dollar cars and eat dinner at this place that charges $5000 for lunch. Grab your shawl and let's git a-movin'!)
Since I have lived in both Palm Beach and Boca Raton for the last 47 years, I can tell you a couple of truths:
1. (From Mom): No matter how much YOU have, someone next door has a lot more. Calm down.
2. People who have massive inherited or new wealth are typically either working everyday to maintain their business(es) or working with charities to best support those less fortunate, which means pretty much everyone else on the planet.
Finally, a story from my college roommate: Driving down the street in Palm Beach one day on a visit, he saw Ted Kennedy coming out of their house in the North End. My roommate could not get over the fact that he was driving a 5-year-old Ford station wagon--remember them? I tried to explain to him that these people would no more buy a fancy foreign car or even a top-of-the-line American car than they would jump off a bridge. They passed that phase 5 generations ago, and today are concerned with service and helping others.
I guess the Robb Report and Peak and so forth are read by "wanna-bees" and others like me who like to see nice stuff...and I am sure there are some mega-wealthy people who read them. I doubt you would see such stuff in houses where the wealth is a responsibility and not a novelty.
Cheers!