Maybe it’s the fact that I am basically a couple generations removed from my kin being old money, but I think I’d rather just have a pair of pearl handled navy revolvers on the mantle instead. Combine that with tailored clothes and a butcher on call, maybe have a personal shooting range with access to what is effectively a personal hunting reserve.
If you have a lot of money you can get a lot of plastic surgery
It’s just like buying a big house or a bunch of expensive cars or a private trip to child rapist island: a status symbol
Sure, but one would think you’d want to look good, not like an Easter Island head.
Not really. Then you just look like a poor. This way people know you’re rich.
As an historic example, consider artificial cranial deformation
Maybe it’s the fact that I am basically a couple generations removed from my kin being old money, but I think I’d rather just have a pair of pearl handled navy revolvers on the mantle instead. Combine that with tailored clothes and a butcher on call, maybe have a personal shooting range with access to what is effectively a personal hunting reserve.
That’s actual old money, building sometime that lasts. These people are new money and are flashy with it instead of buying appreciating assets