There really are people who think that money is the measure of a man's worth. There are people for whom brand names are badges of merit, and a car, a BMW, a Mercedes, is a statement of personal superiority.
This sort of thing is of course so familiar that it has become a cliche. The notions stated above will surprise no one. And yet I am just now, at this late stage in my life, coming to realize that it's the God's honest truth. There are people out there for whom love runs a distant second or third to riches. They will in fact discard love as something of no account in favor of the inanimate thing, the soulless buck, the empty mansion, the idiot hum of a Hummer.
And sometimes those people turn up being the ones who are as close as your own right shoulder.
Oh brave new world. But it is not new, is it. It is as old as humankind.
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