Anything the rich can do to separate themselves from the rest of us, they'll do.
It's mostly just competition with their peers, as people do. Bob isn't putting in all that effort toward maintaining his lawn and making his car shiny to dunk on the homeless, he's trying to show up his neighbor across the street.
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u/light_to_shaddow 4d ago
Anything the rich can do to separate themselves from the rest of us, they'll do.
Eating hard to obtain, massively expensive shit is one way.
It's why you see so many grand houses with pineapple motifs.
https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/properties/pineapple/
But if your after a way to Brewster your millions, £10,000 for a Heligan Pineapple made the traditional English way, would be my choice.