Janet Baraclough > wrote in
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>> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:17:25 GMT, "Paul M. Cook" >
>> wrote:
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>> >
>> >"Janet Baraclough" > wrote in message
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>> >> The message <Sc2Mj.5658$6w3.931@trnddc07>
>> >> from "Paul M. Cook" > contains these words:
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>> >>> "Janet Baraclough" > wrote in message
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>> >>> > The message <dpYLj.3600$6w3.127@trnddc07>
>> >>> > from "Paul M. Cook" > contains these words:
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>> >>> >> People with large disposable
>> >>> >> incomes eat out as a rule, seldom have I known them to ever
>> >>> >> cook.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > That probably means, you don't know (or eat with) many people
>> >>> > with
>> >>> > large disposable incomes. I know scores (including multi-
>> >>> > millionnaires)
>> >>> > who are also marvellous cooks , do all their family cooking
>> >>> > themselves,
>> >>> > do all their dinner party cooking themselves, and eat the
>> >>> > majority of their meals at home.
>> >>> >
>> >>
>> >>> I know quite a few of them as they are my clients. Cooking is
>> >>> not something
>> >>> they are inclined to do. Most have trophy kitchens that will
>> >>> never see so
>> >>> much as a dirty spoon I suspect. Sorry to offend you, but that
>> >>> is my experience.
>
> I'm not offended :-)
>
> They eat out, cooking is for servants with that crowd.
>> >>
>> >> It doesn't follow, that your clients are typical, or "the rule",
>> >> among people with large disposable incomes.
>> >>
>> >
>> >Why not? How would you know?
>
> Because your observation of a subset doesn't match my subset.
> "People with large disposable incomes eat out as a rule" is a
> sweeping generalisation.
>
>> >
>> >I've been around the wealthy for like 20 something years now. They
>> >range from the merely well-to-do PNW of less than 2 million, to the
>> >richest who is
>> >worth easily 200 million probably a lot more. I make money
>> >supporting their
>> >businesses and have known many of them for more than a decade and
>> >have even
>> >been invited to things like their kids weddings and their Christmas
>> >parties.
>> >One guy is so rich he owns not 1 but TWO airworthy WWII bombers
>> >(B25s) that
>> >he keeps in air conditioned hangars. Not bad for a guy who makes
>> >sheet metal air conditioning ducts.
>> >
>> >> IME, people with live-in servants/kitchen staff don't bother with
>> >> fitting "trophy kitchens" for the servants to work in. YMMV.
>> >
>> >They do - it is all about one-upmanship with that crowd. They like
>> >to spend
>> >lavish amounts of money to be seen. Slaving in a kitchen impresses
>> >nobody they know.
>
> But they won't be doing it , the servants will. Since nobody takes
> guests on tours of the servant quarters, there's no one-upmanship to
> be had by providing luxury work conditions for servants.
>
>
> I mentioned it in another post. Not only can my guys not cook,
>> >nor want to, but they tend also to be some seriously tacky people in
>> >the taste department. Money doesn't buy class. I don't envy them
>> >as a rule.
>> >
>> >When they throw a dinner party, it is catered you can rest assured.
>
> Okay, but the fact your clients are like that, doesn't mean that
> all hugely wealthy people are.
> In the very0rich subset I know, they put high value on discretion,
> comfort and privacy; they have the assurance not to need
> one-upmanship, and regard brash displays of lavish spending as vulgar
> and uncouth.
>
> Janet
>

the "NEW" rich are brash the "OLD" money need less reassurance of their
wealth. IMO

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