wrt to the money/class thing - pretty clear that there are not absolutes. trends - sure and higher percentages that x will happen - sure.

Were you trying to get "in" ita?

Did I want to have money like they had money? Sure. Enough to whore myself out? No. But that was about the only angle open to me to take advantage of the connections.

i.e. -- nothing fell into my lap, but it might have if I wasn't wearing panties at the time.

I need to rent the movie Metropolitan again. Or maybe I should just buy it.

Good lord. Are you all still really arguing over which is better, Netflix or PPV?

Gus, you know not to argue with ita, especially when she is right or thinks she is. She'll just hound you incessantly until you either agree or disappear.

Also, does it matter HOW people watch. So Gus likes to buy DVDs or pirate them from PPV. BFD. So ita and a whole bunch of other folks use netflix or rent from Blockbuster? Maybe they are supporting The Man, but does it matter?

sigh.

I don't know. I brushed shoulders with millionaires for years, and none of it rubbed off. No one married me, no one bought me more than dinner (admittedly lovely dinner), I didn't reap anything other than the occasional nice vacation, being able to drive lovely cars every now and again, and a fair amount of disdain or inconvenience because I wasn't able to even remotely pay my own way.

But you weren't looking to establish a foothold in that part of society. Those that long for the this lifestyle would not not feel disdain nor be inconvenienced because they couldn't pay their own way. They position themselves to make sure the money falls their way. What I'm getting is that you didn't care to compromise yourself to marry Midas.

So I must disagree with your disagreement. I think we now agree...

edit: A lovely little x-post with Ms Trudy.

Tom scores with the meta.

Tom, I'd kiss you right now, if you were here. Because you just made me laugh.

I can't. But odds are, neither of my grandmothers could have, either. Both were dirt poor farmers' daughters who were too busy clawing their way up to the lower middle class to care about the age of anyone's money.

But did they read the papers and talk about the dresses and stuff? Nobody does that now.

Did I want to have money like they had money? Sure. Enough to whore myself out? No. But that was about the only angle open to me to take advantage of the connections.

I was thinking more along the lines of dating/marrying or putting your MBA to use.

The creators made the best deal they could with Time Warner or whomever. If TW owned Netflix, this would be pertinent.

Uhh. Netflix is independant, right?

Do people outside of the south still hold debutante stuff? I think that is a tradition long-faded in my neck of the woods, but I have seen photos of deb balls from, like, Texas.

Every once in a while I run into someone I went to The Right School with. If I were luckier, more personable, and more ambitious, I bet I could have made something more out of The Right School than merely getting into One Of Many Rightish Colleges.

Of course, there's still the economic aspect of that kind of opportunity. If you can afford to take an unpaid internship during the summer, you gain networking contacts. If you can afford to travel, you can go on skiing vacations and meet the parents of your classmates.