Meet The 'Poorgeoisie': One Part Hobo, One Part Millionaire

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Despite the downturn, a moneyed class of people are still buying luxury goods--and they're doing it by the mini Cooper-load. While Wall Street's hedge-funders have become whipping boys, those who have mastered the art of inconspicuous consumption are living as large as ever. But they're not easy to spot, resembling, as they do, Trotskyite grad students--a look that doesn't come cheap: $300 Acme jeans, $175 hand-stitched guayabera shirt, $150 mussed haircut with beard trim (not too short, please). This brand of consumerism escapes condemnation--it's okay to be a capitalist pig as long as you're the sort who roots around in your organic garden for truffles.

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Comments

[walleymr]

09:53 AM on 06/13/2009

fascinating puddle dive you linked there

[Tulka2]

03:33 PM on 06/12/2009

Okay... but the only hobo millionaire i know lives like a saint in a tiny cabin in this neighborhood. He spends his days figuring out how to give his money away. I'm just saying... there's at least one guy like that in the world. He is a trust fund baby and he lives like a hobo hermit. He does have the latest computer set up, but he doesn't even own a car. Every day we see him hand pull his row-boat down to the lake with his little dog beside him. A saint. His "work" is figuring out how to give his money away.

Oh, but i know there is a class war, there is no end of money being spent and the underclass did not start the war.