New Trend Among The Fabulously Wealthy: Family Mission Statements

The Wall Street Journal's Wealth Report Blog:

One of the most-fascinating trends among the wealthy is the corporatization of private life: Things that used to be simple and personal in life have become bureaucratized, systematized and jargonized in mimicry of the corporate world.

Today's rich want to invest like institutions rather than individuals. Their homes aren't homes, but properties managed by household managers. They don't have plumbers, contractors or florists, but vendors.

Read the whole story: The Wall Street Journal's Wealth Report Blog

Comments

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

08:43 PM on 10/14/2007

Hubris has been elevated to new heights. What do you call a government that is a combo of fascism and oligarchy? Oh yeah, I guess it would be Republicon.

[JudyGee]

07:50 PM on 10/14/2007

Fascists are satire unto themselves. I like to think of them at their unconscionably expensive dinner parties, wallowing in a personal chef's foody creations, the host for demon bacteria from stinky feces runoff, and deforming toxic chemicals, brought to them by their own nasty obsession for profit.

[dadw5boys]

11:19 AM on 10/14/2007

SO LAWYERS HAVE FOUND A WAY TO CONTROL WEALTH OF A PERSON PAST THEIR DEATH. Lawyers will end up with thier money.

[realitytrumpsbull]

12:27 AM on 10/14/2007

Yeah, my family used to try to tell me what to do...we still call, we still write, just not
as frequently...of course, they're not rich either...

[everyoneequal]

10:58 PM on 10/13/2007

Maybe us lower class citizens will have some made available for us at Wal Mart. They could be made of genuine plastic with lead paint. We could write in our family's mission with magic marker. I think it would look great on my trailer. A magnetic smaller version could be available for our cars and trucks.

[abbiehoffmansghost]

05:03 PM on 10/13/2007

Fill up my goblet and peel me a grape.

[Scott1960]

07:51 AM on 10/13/2007

How medieval! We live in interesting times, get a front row seat to the devolution of America!

[JSquercia]

11:28 AM on 10/13/2007

I HOPE to seating right NEXT TO Madame LaFarge

[godlessclif]

04:09 PM on 10/13/2007

I would be proud to roll her wool skeins.

[mommadona]

05:25 AM on 10/13/2007

Well, shoot, before you know it, the 'liege' will be demanding "first dibs" on the wedding nights, and/or first dibs inspecting the sheets......

"It's good to be king".
"It's better to be a member of the Chamber of Commerce - no vassals to worry about".

[swift goat pet for truth]

02:12 AM on 10/13/2007

*barf*

[tililek]

07:35 PM on 10/12/2007

We all have our dream worlds, but theirs seem to have avoided reality. Calling a cow a horse may seem pleasant enough, but it doesn't have much effect on the cow.

[ZingoBonMot]

12:19 AM on 10/13/2007

Does DUH-bya Bush have a'manager' to keep those GAY rumors swirling around him hidden away 'in the closet'?
Decide for yourself.

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