#brought to you by my looking at several job ads for private PAs to HMWI and fucking ~shuddering~

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I feel like this.. kinda feeds into the whole Succession billionaire fashion discourse that's been going on (plus Gwyneth Paltrow's court outfits) but in an interior design context.

Which is to say, they quite likely don't choose their decor. Someone else gets paid quite a lot of money to do that, and they all choose the same stuff from the same places and the important things aren't about their taste so much as what the expected appearance is supposed to be. Unless they actually have an interest in interior design (and I'd differentiate here between people who made their money creatively or via business or inherited, and what cultural and socioeconomic background they originally came from), it just becomes one more thing to outsource to a specialist...

"you hate capitalism because you're jealous of rich people" well I wouldn't mind having an in-ground pool but there's also other reasons to hate capitalism such as the fact that owning a chocolate company that doesn't use fucking child slavery earns you praise because it's so uncommon, or the fact that it by design results in repeat economic collapses when the average consumer can't afford to stimulate the economy, or the fact that our future (and current) existence on planet earth is full of detrimental environmental disasters because pursuing fossil fuels was more profitable in the short-term, or the fact that entire wars are started specifically to make money, or...yeah the list goes on