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Dr Gina Rinehart .... #bullshitartist #pseudointellectuals #statusseekers
🤣🤣🤣"Bond University has awarded a prestigious Honorary Doctorate to Mrs Gina Rinehart in recognition of her commitment and contribution to the Australian economy and wider community."
These billionaires are like kids with a new toy—except this time, it's a doctrine they're trying to buy to look smart. If only intellectual credibility came with a price tag, they'd have already cornered the market!
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> For us the legendary strongholds of snobbery are the Hollywood studios, where two thousand dollars a week dare not talk to three hundred dollars a week for fear he be taken for nothing more than fifteen hundred dollars a week.
In an essay, #MannersMorals and The Novel, #LionelTrilling on #Snobbery in #Hollywood reminded me of similar obsevations by #DouglasRushkoff in the book #LifeInc. I wonder how much of this was covered in #VancePackard's The #StatusSeekers?