re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is also the heritage of that sort of Calvinism that sees wealth as an outward sign of inner grace.

And those who are wealthy will go to great lengths to appear gracious.

Why did we love Dallas? Because it showed that the wealthy could be venal, immoral twits.

It was a form of ideological porn.

Dallas was never a hit in Russia, because they were raised on the notion that the wealthy were innately immoral.

If I were to do something extremely unlikely like win the MegaMillions, I would likely give the majority of it away to causes I favour and to my town’s services (like the public library and park).

I don’t have enough financial acumen to manage that many zeros, and my ability to find someone who can without trying to rip me off would probably fail too.