More Boredom of the Vanities

The most notable thing about the ultra-rich isn't how much they have accumulated but how singularly unimaginative they are in spending it.

Egyptians built pyramids, etc, etc.  The rich today don't do anything.  Maybe they buy a super-size MacYacht or build some more stupid shit in Dubai but that's it.

Sam Kinison revisit:  I see them sending those trucks of food out to the starving people in Ethiopia but here's a tip.  Why don't you use the trucks to bring those people to where the fucking food is.

(Before you bust me for the flaw behind that thinking, I know the flaw.  That's not the point.)

So, sure, it makes brilliant sense to build an ultra-resort somewhere that offers nothing but heat and sand fleas.  If you ever think American Republicans are the most stupid, just take a look at an Arab sheik and the idiotic stuff he does.  But at least they're somewhat imaginative in their stupidity whereas American Republicans usually confine themselves to the same infinitely-hackneyed themes.  Oh sure, honey, tell me more about evolution in school and how Iowa views science.  You won't mind if I slash my wrists, will you.

Kennedy said let's go to the Moon in ten years.  So, cool, here's a richie with an imagination.  Sure, let's do that.  Let's go to the fuckin' Moon, man.

These days it's all such a blazing bore.  In other times in history, the richies built all kinds of cool stuff:  pyramids, castles, cathedrals, there's stuff everywhere.  But what do our richies do?  Fuckin' nothin'.  Trump builds another boring casino.  Christ.  What a drag.

Our friends at Lockheed Martin are ever so proud of themselves as they're building the latest Trillion Dollar Titanium Penis (i.e. F-35) and this is probably supposed to be regarded as some incredibly impressive feat of military technology.  I'm sure it will just scare the living shit out of some asshat with a truck bomb.

So the problem of redistribution isn't simply about a giveaway program.  The ultra-rich don't spend their money on anything except making more money.  They really have turned world finance into a game of Monopoly with just as little point.  When Egyptians built pyramids, a ton of people got jobs out of it, a whole lot of money got spent, and all so people could look at them today and wonder why the hell they did it.  Maybe it's because their richies understood economics one hell of a lot better than the richies of today.