"Money can't buy you happiness...but it can buy you a boat big enough pull up right alongside it." - David Lee Roth

We're one piece away from the all-important "three makes a trend" rule, but these two stories, the first from Sunday's Times, the second from today's, seem to presage a coming conflict between the least-appreciated members of our society: people with enough cash to buy and sell you five times over. Who to pity more: The merely rich, with their fancy cars and decent health care and private schools, or the superrich, who must contend with the envy of their financial inferiors with only the cold comfort of a yacht stuffed with thousand dollars bills and houses in multiple locations? We're going to save our sympathy for the hard-working journalists who have to churn out crap like this. Now excuse us: we've got to run to the deli, where the coffee is under two dollars.

A New Class War: The Haves vs. the Have Mores [NYT]
In Web World, Rich Now Envy the Superrich [NYT]

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