It's A Gas

Technorati Tag(s): Celebrity, Opinion

On VH1, there's a series called The Fabulous Life. I've just seen it for the first time; this one focused on London.

Processing all those numbers is a bit overwhelming.

I used to think that the rich are just human beings with a lot of money.

They're not. They're nasty; they're spoilt; they're another species.

John Travolta stayed at a hotel where the standard fare is thousands of dollars per night, and he had his own private chef make him a peanut-butter jelly sandwich.

Many grands worth of manicures. You get diamonds pressed into your fingernails. Glitter polish.

These people, they have backrubs every second hour.

Jennifer Lopez had peacocks flown in.

Madonna had a special brand of tea flown in just because she felt like it. Halfway around the world.

A 14,000 Dollar tea-bag. A family could have enough food for a year in my country on that kind of money. With five kids, even.

These people, they spend 1.7 million dollars on clothes they'll never wear. In three hours.

These people, they throw dozens of hundred dollar bills just to get into some club and drink martinis.

There's nothing wrong with wanting the best of everything, but after a certain threshold, it becomes silly. Please, will drinking tea from a bag stuffed with diamonds make it any better? Is it even worth spending those 14Ks on?

How much stuff do you need, for crying out loud?

The point is, do these people value what they have? They don't need to wait for what they want; does anything have any worth for them?

This entry might read like a have-not dissing on the haves, and some of it surely is, but it's not because they have a lot of stuff and billions have none. I don't subscribe to the snatch from the rich and give to the poor logic, as long as the rich have earned their riches. These people, the ones with the most, what do they do? Cut a crap album each year. Act in a movie or two each year.

In the insect hives, the ones with the most resources tend to serve the most--or one of the most--important roles in the hive's growth, existence and more importantly, it's future. In our hive, they do nothing at all.