Line #57 Quotes/ConspicuousConsumption


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3	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
4	->''"Now see to it that the swimming pool is filled with fresh milk upon my return. It does wonders for my complexion. ...Ah, I see we'll be taking the lavender jet today."''
5	-->--'''Zigfried von Schroeder''', ''Anime/YuGiOh''
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8	[[folder:Fan Works]]
9	->He checked his multi-faced watch and scowled. It was all very well and good that it cost the average Ministry worker's salary for a year, but what did that matter when he could hardly even read the bloody thing?
10	-->-- ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/2117313 Every Betrayed!Harry Fic Ever: The Short Version]]''
11
12	->''"Dad talked about it sometimes. Living with [[GruesomeGrandparent him]]. Expensive, awful food. Bad performances. It offended him. Things that should have been joyful human experiences getting turned into matters of status. Culture as something to suffer through and hoard."''
13	-->-- '''Bruce Wayne''', ''Fanfic/SorrowfulAndImmaculateHearts'': "Karen from HR"
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16	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
17
18	->''If something's for sale, consider it sold\
19	I got so much gold, I gold plate my gold!\
20	I even got a guy to gold plate my cat\
21	(I don't regret much, but [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime I do regret that]])\
22	If I could start over I'd do it all the same\
23	But I wouldn't gold plate little Twinkles again''
24	-->--"Let's Talk About Me", '''Tex Richman''', (''Film/TheMuppets2011'')
25
26	->''Jewish people driving German cars\
27	Jewish people driving German cars\
28	Jewy people buying German cars\
29	What the ''cock'' is ''that'' shit?''
30	-->--"I Love You More", '''Creator/SarahSilverman''' (''Jesus Is Magic'')
31
32	->''"[[PreAssKickingOneLiner Those were $500 sunglasses.]]"''
33	-->--'''Johnny Cage''', ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie''
34
35	->'''Jupiter:''' How can someone ''own'' a planet?\
36	'''Kalique:''' It's just a planet... there are far more valuable things.
37	-->--''Film/JupiterAscending''
38
39	->''I eat filet mignon seven times a day,\
40	My bathtub's filled with Perrier,\
41	What can I say?\
42	This is the life!\
43	I buy a dozen cars when I'm in the mood,\
44	I hire somebody to chew my food,\
45	I'm an upwardly mobile dude,\
46	This is the life!''
47	-->--"This Is The Life", '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''', ''Film/JohnnyDangerously''
48
49	->''"Think I saw this house on Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless."''
50	-->-- '''Martin Riggs''', ''Film/LethalWeapon1987''
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54	[[folder:Literature]]
55
56	->''For average working folks, [[{{Eagleland}} America]] was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone [[ImprobablyCoolCar paying for these BMWs]]? Were people shrewd or just [[HanlonsRazor stupefyingly irresponsible]]?''
57	-->--'''Daniel Suarez''', ''Literature/{{Daemon}}''
58
59	->''Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man [[NonIdleRich devotes his material wealth to lofty ends]], the advancement of science, or art, or some such true ideal; and that the base man does the opposite by concentrating all his abilities on the amassing of wealth? Exactly; that is the real distinction between the artist and the bourgeois, or, if you prefer it, between the gentleman and [[UpperClassTwit the cad]].''
60	-->-- '''Creator/AleisterCrowley''', ''Moonchild''
61
62	->The [palace] [[BigDoor doors]] shut grandly behind us. Everything here needs that extra weight. There isn't a single gesture that isn't laced with self-importance.
63	-->-- ''Literature/BeastsMadeOfNight''
64
65	->Judge Dee sat down in the high armchair behind the bench. With a sour look he took in the luxurious appointments of this court hall.\
66	The bench was covered with costly red brocade, embroidered in gold, and the writing implements lying ready on it were all valuable antiques. The beautifully carved stone inkslab, the paper weight of green jade, the sandalwood seal box, and the writing brushes with the ivory shafts belonged to a collector’s studio rather than to a tribunal. The floor consisted of coloured tiles, and the back wall was hidden by a magnificent high folding screen, painted in gold and blue with a design of waves and clouds.\
67	Judge Dee held the view that public offices ought to be as simple as possible, in order to show the people that the government doesn’t waste its tax-money on unnecessary luxury. But on Paradise Island evidently even government offices had to show off the place’s enormous wealth.
68	-->--''Literature/JudgeDee'', "The Red Pavilion"
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71	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
72
73	->''"My SHOES cost more than your HOUSE!"''
74	-->--'''Wrestling/RicFlair'''
75
76	->'''Lex''': It's the Luthor ancestral home, [[FakeAristocrat or so my father claims]]. He had it shipped over from Scotland, stone by stone.\
77	'''Clark:''' Yeah, the trucks rolled through town for weeks, but no one ever moved in.\
78	'''Lex''': My father had no intention of ''living'' here. He's never even stepped through the front door.\
79	'''Clark''': Then why he'd ship it over?\
80	'''Lex''': Because he could.
81	-->--''Series/{{Smallville}}'', "Pilot"
82
83	->''"[[TheEighties For the first time in American history]], it's considered a good thing to flaunt your success, right? Let people know how rich you are. God bless Ronald Reagan."''
84	-->--'''[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Matt Bromley]]''', ''Series/{{Pose}}''
85
86	->'''Mr. Manguera:''' I'm furious with the excessive spending in this program!
87	->'''Tulio:''' EXCESSIVE!? But it was all to work more efficiently!
88	->'''Mr. Manguera:''' Oh, yes? Last month, you had 32 barbeques, 46 parties, and 2 baptisms. You also had a miniature train installed, to run around the studio.
89	->''mini-train full of [[LivingProp Tramoyas]] passes by''
90	->'''Tulio:''' GET BACK TO WORK!
91	->'''Mr. Manguera:''' You also had a swimming pool built in the back, and bought 300.000 liters of chocolate, I don't even know for ''what''.
92	->'''Tulio:''' ...to fill the pool...
93	-->-- ''Series/TreintaYUnMinutos''
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97	[[folder:Music]]
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99	->''Money, it's a gas\
100	Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash\
101	New car, caviar, four star daydream\
102	Think I'll buy me a football team''
103	-->--"Money", '''Music/PinkFloyd'''
104
105	->''That's that: 'Come here, please buy more'\
106	What you want a Bentley, fur coat and diamond chain?\
107	All you blacks want all the same things[='=]''
108	-->--"New Slaves", '''Music/KanyeWest'''
109
110	->''They be like, 'Oh, that Gucci -- that's hella tight!'\
111	I'm like, 'Yo... that's fifty dollars for a T-shirt'\
112	Limited edition, let's do [[CaptainObvious some simple addition]]\
113	Fifty dollars for a T-shirt, that's just some ignorant bitch ''(shit)''\
114	I call that getting swindled and pimped ''(shit)''\
115	I call that getting tricked by a business''
116	-->--"Thrift Shop", '''{{Music/Macklemore}}'''
117
118	->''I'm living out in LA\
119	I drive a sports car just to prove\
120	I'm a real big baller\
121	Cause I made a millon dollars\
122	And I spend it on girls on shoes''
123	-->--"I Took A Pill In Ibiza", '''Mike Posner'''
124
125	->''I bought a twelve room house, a mountain lodge,\
126	A lemon-yellow Cadillac in a blue garage\
127	I'm a-breaking my back putting up a front for you\
128	I bought an aeroplane, it's just for kicks\
129	Holds twice as many passengers as a DC-6\
130	I'm a-breaking my back putting up a front for you''
131	-->--"Breaking My Back Putting Up a Front for you", '''Desi Arnaz'''
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135	[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
136
137	->''"I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought [[AndTheRest some dumb stuff]], too."''
138	-->--'''Creator/SteveMartin'''
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142	[[folder:Theatre]]
143
144	->''I'd build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen\
145	Right in the middle of the town\
146	A fine tin roof with real wooden floors below\
147	There would be one long staircase just going up,\
148	And one even longer coming down,\
149	And one more leading nowhere, just for show!''
150	-->--'''''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof''''', "If I Were a Rich Man"
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154	[[folder:Video Games]]
155
156	->''One of only 10 ever made, the Z-Type is a car you can really enjoy sitting in, surrounded by army guards, too terrified to actually drive it anywhere.''
157	-->--[=Legendarymotorsport.net=] description of the Z-Type coupé, ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''
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159	->''"Hey, buddy - ah, these pretzels suck - how's your day been, buddy? We haven’t really talked much since I left you for dead! Hey, you think you’ll freeze to death out there? Nah, probably not. The bandits’ll get you first. My day? It's been pretty good. Just bought a pony made of diamonds, because I’m rich. So, you know. That’s cool. 'Kay bye!"''
160	-->--'''Handsome Jack''', ''VideoGame/Borderlands2''
161
162	->''"I wonder if dictators have that whole one-up thing that neighbours have with each other, like, do they have this “keeping up with the Joneses” for the one percent of sociopaths? Like, did [[TheCaligula Pagan]] see that [[OurFounder gigantic statue]] of himself, did he buy that just because Kim Jong-Un has a statue of himself like that? Maybe he also said the same thing, like “Aw man, Kim Jong-Un has a {{gold\|MakesEverythingShiny}}en toilet, ''I'' need a golden toilet, I mean I have to shit in a golden bowl. I ''have'' to. I mean look at what Kim Jong-Un has.” Life must be so different for the [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney evil subset of the one percent]]. Hm..."''
163	-->--'''[[CuckoolanderCommentator Rabi Ray Rana]]''', ''VideoGame/FarCry4''
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165	->''"As my dear departed father used to say, 'What's the point of being disgustingly rich if you're not constantly spending your money on frivolous bullshit?'"''
166	-->--'''Max Gentlemen''', ''VideoGame/MaxGentlemenSexyBusiness''
167
168	->''"[[OrganTheft Body in a bathtub]]? The only time I've ever woken up in a bathtub was when I made the Sultan of Brunei fill a bathtub with diamonds. I wouldn't recommend it - diamonds are harder than rock salt and they have a way of [[AssShove finding their way into all sorts of cavities]]. I was nervous in airports for the next 6 months."''
169	-->--'''Kirsten Geary,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''
170
171	->''Thus Neokitsch was born, the style of celebrities, braindance stars, magnates, heirs to corporate fortunes and corporate [=CEOs=] ... Surrounded in everyday life by the cold style of the corporate overclass, they abandon it for gold, silver and platinum, for the warmth of real wood, ivory and natural furs--rare and exclusive materials only they can afford. Neokitsch is, in a certain sense, a return to the roots of Kitsch, while also acting as a show of forceful luxury by people with so much money they need not care about the opinions of others.''
172	-->-- ''The Digital Artbook of VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077''
173
174	->'''Barok Van Zieks:''' My hallowed bottles are filled with the essence of the finest grapes from the finest vineyards I visit. And I personally oversee these chalices being made by the finest crystal craftsmen in the world.
175	->'''Iris Wilson:''' And yet you throw them around in court like they're worthless.
176	-->''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney''
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178	->Mr. Konoe smiles, decked out in a flashy suit designed to call attention to the implied amount of money it cost its owner.
179	-->--'''Kazuo Yashiki''' on '''Headmaster Seizou Konoe''', ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterDeathMarkII''
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182	[[folder:Web Animation]]
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184	->''"What ''VideoGame/TheSims'' is is a consumerist middle class fantasy about walling yourself off from the real world and reducing all measurement of human development and personal success to one's possessions, your [[DragonHoard dragon's hoard]] of crass suburban decadence. And in that game of Top Trumps, the swimming pool is ''a kingly crown!''"''
185	-->--''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''
186
187	->'''Paulo Dybala:''' OK, everybody out! The arcade is closed for a private party.[...]\
188	'''Giovanni Reyna:''' What are you doing here? I thought you didn't even like arcades.\
189	'''Dybala:''' Well, we like spending money, and the day rate on this place is ridiculous.\
190	'''Alphonso Davies:''' It's a flex.
191	-->--''WebAnimation/{{The Champions\|2018}}''
192
193	->''"Everyone says [Manchester City] keep winning because we have the money to buy any player we want. But we also buy players that we don't want... because we can!"''
194	-->--'''Pep Guardiola''', ''WebAnimation/{{The Champions\|2018}}''
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197	[[folder:Web Original]]
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199	->''Supposedly, a sooth-sayer of Tiberius's said "Caligula has about as much chance of becoming emperor as he does of [[ItWillNeverCatchOn riding a horse across the Bay of Pigs.]]" Caligula clearly got wind of this as he designed a floating bridge, connecting the province of Baiae to the neighbouring port of Puteoli and road his horse Incitatus across it wearing the armour of Alexander the Great which you have to admit is pretty cool. It nearly crashed the economy however.''
200	-->--''Rational Wiki'' on UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}
201
202	->''Rich people, drop another panda heart into your helicopter's dog kennel and let's get ready to shop! Poor people, this seems like a good time to warn you that I'm in a helicopter, [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting you]].''
203	-->--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-10-most-absurdly-expensive-products-amazon.com/#ixzz31G2VtCu7 "The 10 Most Absurdly Expensive Products on Amazon.com"]]
204
205	->''Together, we might just make it possible for Richard Branson to finally land on Europa and [[MileHighClub finger bang a model]].''
206	-->--'''[[Website/SomethingAwful Zack Parsons]]''', [[http://www.somethingawful.com/news/private-space-flight/ "Dare to Take Humanity's Next Great Step and Send Twenty Rich People Into Space"]]
207
208	->''Paltrow spent most of 2011 performing on awards shows (mostly so people could be like, "OMG! I didn't know she could sing! And now I do! I don't know what else to do with this information!"), pushing shit on Goop that no one except Creator/GwynethPaltrow would buy, and unleashing her awful cookbook upon the world, a book that included such amazingly vapid sentences as "''We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden—a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.''" Is it any wonder we all [[TakeThatScrappy loved watching her die]] in ''Film/{{Contagion\|2011}}''?''
209	-->--'''[[https://www.gq.com/gallery/25-least-influential-people-alive Drew Magary]]''', "The 25 Least Influential People of 2011"
210
211	->''Matt Yglesias publishes article trumpeting Vertu, a maker of a $6,000 luxury android phone. He gets a raft of shit. Responds by posting a photograph he took on vacation in Hanoi of a couple having their wedding photo taken near a Vertu sign. Claims it means $6,000 smart phones [[ProfessionalButtKisser are aspirational.]]''
212	-->--'''''Website/SomethingAwful''''', [[http://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/matt-yglesias-slate/1/ "The Stupidest Articles from Slate's Matt Yglesias in 2013"]]
213
214	->''Martha Stewart got a drone for her birthday last year ('in Maine,' she notes, Martha Stewart-ishly) and it turns out she just can't get enough droning. In a ''TIME'' op-ed titled 'Why I Love My Drone,' she explains why: Because it makes it way easier to [[MundaneUtility craft a marzipan Peter Rabbit cake]] that's an exact replica of her farm. [[NotMakingThisUpdisclaimer <—-ACTUAL REASON.]]''
215	-->--'''[[http://jezebel.com/martha-stewart-has-her-own-drone-and-she-fucking-loves-1613047921 Lindy West]]''', "Martha Stewart Has Her Own Drone And She Fucking Loves It"
216
217	->''An HDTV without an HD signal is like a pair of glasses without lenses. Yeah, you can probably still see stuff, but who wants to see through a smear of peanut butter over their eyes when there are better options readily available? People would rather use HD screens as decorative accents. They're status symbols. They're the new version of an animal's stuffed head mounted on a wall.''
218	-->--''{{Website/Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-incredible-modern-technologies-that-have-lost-their-luster/ "4 Incredible Modern Technologies That Have Lost Their Luster"]]
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222	[[folder:Web Video]]
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224	->''"It wasn't that long ago that I was living in a little ''[[AC:Lamborghini]]'', sleepin' on bookshelves in ''[[AC:the Hollywood Hills]]'', with only forty-seven ''[[AC:billion]]'' dollars in my bank account, and only forty-seven ''[[AC:Lamborghinis]]'' in my ''[[AC:Lamborghini]]'' account, and only forty-seven ''[[AC:Hills]]'' in my ''[[AC:Hollywood]]'' account."''
225	-->--''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIwTG8V-Ko Tai Lopez]] YouTubePoop''
226
227	->''"...And they say ''[='=]Can we sit on the bed?[='=]'' and I say ''[='=]Sure, but these are expensive Japanese linen.[='=]'' and they say ''[='=]But they're not even soft![='=]'' and '''I''' say... '''[='=]Sometimes... things that are expensive... are worse.[='=]'''"''
228	-->-- ''WebVideo/TheGayAndWondrousLifeOfCalebGallo''
229
230	->''"...eating this pizza, I feel like a [[Franchise/JamesBond Bond villain]]. I want to eat this in my VolcanoLair."''
231	-->-- '''Andrew''' on the [[GoldMakesEverythingShiny gold-dusted]] $2000 pizza, ''WebVideo/BuzzfeedWorthIt''
232
233	->''All classy and Italian. Like "Ferrari". Ooh, I haven't bought one of those in forever. 'Scuse me, Gentlemen: I need to go call my Ferrari guy!''
234	-->--''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged''
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238	[[folder:Western Animation]]
239
240	->''"Very expensive."''
241	-->-- '''Mr. Dink'' describing whatever gadget he just bought, ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''
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243	[[/folder]]
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245	[[folder:Real Life]]
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247	->''In this book, dating from 1899, Veblen discovers and defines the leisure class, whose strange duty is to spend money significantly. So, they live in a neighborhood, [[ShiningCity because it is said that this neighborhood is the most expensive]]. Liebermann or Picasso fixed large sums ''[for their paintings]'', not because they were greedy, but to not disappoint the buyers whose purpose was to show that they could afford a cloth bearing their signature. According to Veblen, [[CrackIsCheaper the golf boom is due to the fact that it requires a lot of ground]].... If a manager does not have time for conspicuous waste, his wife or their children do so for him, so that periodic changes of fashion provide liveries.''
248	-->-- '''Creator/JorgeLuisBorges’''' prologue to Thorstein Veblen's ''[[RichInDollarsPoorInSense Theory Of The Leisure Class]]''
249
250	->''“It’s insulting to say that I spent $30,000 on wine. Because it was far more. By the way, it was not $3 million to shoot {{Creator/Hunter\|SThompson}} into the fucking sky. It was $5 million.”''
251	-->--'''Creator/JohnnyDepp'''
252
253	->''I’m sure that Creator/NicolasCage is pfft-ing at that one, because I bet he spent $15 million on sending the ashes of a 13th century Scottish prince to space where a drone scattered them on the moon.''
254	-->--'''[[https://dlisted.com/2017/02/01/johnny-depp-is-living-that-opulent-wine-hobo-life/ Michael K.]]''', "Johnny Depp Is Living That Opulent Wine Hobo Life"
255
256	->''"Because I can."''
257	-->--'''David A. Siegel''', on building a scale replica of Versailles for himself
258
259	->''"They had to stop exporting it because they were cutting down the rainforest, or whatever."''
260	-->--'''Jackie Siegel''' on importing Brazilian mahogany for her home construction
261
262	->''"I don't think people went around saying to themselves: 'I need to have a 10,000 square foot house.' We weren't exposed to things we didn't have in the same way kids these days are. There was not that window into the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Kids weren't monitoring every day what Creator/KimKardashian was wearing, or where Kanye West was going on vacation, and thinking that somehow that was the mark of success."''
263	-->--'''UsefulNotes/BarackObama''' on the American Dream, old vs. new
264
265	->''It's a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really need and are really a bargain, like gas and postage stamps, but we willingly shell out outrageous amounts for unnecessary crap like gourmet coffee and soap to make your crotch smell good.''
266	-->--'''Creator/BillMaher'''
267
268	->''"On clubbers: They were all photographing themselves. In fact, that's all they seemed to be doing. Standing around in expensive clothes, snapping away with phones and cameras. One pose after another, as though they needed to prove their own existence, right there, in the moment. Crucially, this seemed to be the reason they were there in the first place. There was very little dancing. Just pouting and flashbulbs."''
269	-->--'''Creator/CharlieBrooker'''
270
271	->''The green revolution had produced much more food. That made food cheaper. In turn, that meant we had more money to spend. And we had started to spend it on “stuff”: televisions, video recorders, Walkmans, hair dryers, cars, and clothes. And we also started to spend it on vacations. Far more vacations. At the center of this spending spree was the astonishing growth of transportation. In 1960 there were 100 million cars on the world’s roads—by 1980 there were 300 million. With this came a massive expansion of road networks—carving up entire countries, further increasing loss of habitat for other species. In 1960 we flew 62 billion passenger miles. In 1980 we flew 620 billion passenger miles. Global shipping grew at a similarly astonishing rate. All of the stuff we were buying, plus all of the food we were consuming, plus all the raw materials and resources required to make everything was being shipped around the world. By this point, initial signs of the consequences of our growth were starting to show.''
272	-->--'''Stephen Emmott''', ''10 Billion'' (2013)
273
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