Opinion: It’s time to make rich people uncomfortable again
By P.J. O'Rourke May 20 at 3:38 PM P.J. O’Rourke is the editor in chief of American Consequences and the author, most recently, of “None of My Business: P.J. Explains Money, Banking, Debt, Equity, Assets, Liabilities, and Why He's Not Rich and Neither Are You.”
Yes, I’m also going around in an untucked “My Kid Went to College and All I Got Was This Lousy . . .” But I’ve earned it. Or, rather, I haven’t. I can’t afford a Savile Row morning suit, Turnbull & Asser dress shirt, Hermès cravat and pair of bespoke John Lobb Oxfords. And — taking out the trash, gassing up the car and ordering an Egg McMuffin at the drive-through window — I wouldn’t be comfortable wearing them.
They went to the opera. It was like vaudeville except without the tap dancing, acrobatics, magic tricks, jokes or entertainment. You had to wait to eat dinner until 8 p.m. Table manners were complicated. Which knife do you use to eat peas? And strange foods were served — terrapin soup , shad roe and pheasant under glass .
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