Today's paper reported that our culture has forsaken keeping up with the Jones and has now gone to keeping up with the Gates by buying $130,000 Hummers, $600 jeans and $400 bottles of wine.
The most outrageous example given was a Japanese restaurant in NYC named
Masa which serves only a $350 dinner. It has 26 seats and a reservation is the most sought-after status symbol in the city. (And they don't even serve steak!)
"Woe to you who are complacent in Zion (America?)....You lie on beds of ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves. You strum away on your harps like David and improvise on musical instruments. You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest lotions....Your feasting and lounging will end."
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