"Once you have successfully demonstrated your excess resources to your potential mate, you straddle her thorax, and grasp her with your pedipalps, and then--oh wait. Wrong species. But not by much.
Thus, the first principle of buying luxury items: No matter what they tell you at the Maybach dealership/jewelry store/spa, there is very little material benefit to any high-end item. Anybody who starts explaining to you, at length, why his $8,000 custom-fitted Serotta Ottrott bicycle frame with carbon fiber components, just like John Kerry's, is actually worth the money because of the way the handmade frame geometry provides the perfectly calibrated balance between stiffness and ride, with optimum motion damping for an efficient power train, really wants you to know only one thing: he spent $8,000 on a bicycle. Or, that he is John Kerry, in which case my advice to you is to back away slowly, nodding, without making any sudden movements." (p. 166-67)
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I just started this book but I'm disappointed that he doesn't actually participate in any of the vices(so far). He just observes, adds some comments then takes pity. We'll see how it turns out.
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