Their lavish lifestyle drives the tabloid press and “ordinary people” as they say now.
Apart from Annie Ernaux, our 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature, who holds them in low esteem, they have always fascinated writers.
“
Do the rich
have something more than the others?”
asked in the 1920s, in Paris, the American Francis Scott Fitzgerald to his friend Ernest Hemingway.
Which had replied:
“Yes, money.”
But how much exactly?
Strange paradox, the economists and statisticians whose figures constitute the profession are unable to provide an answer.
They fiercely refuse to do so, and we will see why they deem it unnecessary to define a quantified standard measuring access to wealth.
To paraphrase a famous parable,
“I tell you, it is easier to go to Mars than to enter the kingdom of the rich.”
Because we know exactly where "the red planet" is located that Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, dreams of conquering.
In contrast…
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