The New Gilded Age in One Christmas Card

[kpete]

The New Gilded Age in One Christmas Card
December 29, 2013 | Erik Loomis
Jamie Dimon’s Christmas card basically sums up the New Gilded Age.

You’d also think for all that money Dimon could at least afford the proper number of buttons on his shirt.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2530032/19m-year-JP-Morgan-boss-Jamie-Dimon-fire-tasteless-Christmas-card-shows-wealth.html

[Fridays Child]

1. Another oblivious denizen of Mount One Percent?

Maybe those of us down here in the Ninety-nine Percent Abyss were not supposed to see that.

[Orrex]

2. My former employers spent thousands on annual, custom-made Christmas cards

The format was the same each year, a 20-page brochure with each branch of the entire huge, dynastic family pictured in glossy color photos, complete with a brief write-up of the year's births and developments for each branch. One year, in fact, they all jetted to the Vatican and were pictured with the pontiff himself. I'm not exaggerating.

We would get these cards every year, in lieu of a raise or a bonus, and the message was clear each time: "Worship us, even though we don't pay you enough to afford food or heat."

I know of at least one person who was fired--yes fired--for throwing his card into the trash.


Although Dimon's crass and ostentatious display is disgusting, it's by no means rare, and in fact it's emblematic of how the leisure class lives and plays 365 days a year.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. A picture of a family playing with nerf balls ...

... this is hardly a "Gilded" activity.

No picture of the yacht, the jet, etc.

I think this photo is sorta low-key.

[jsr]

4. The Great Recession has been good to banksters.

Not good. Excellent.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. 'THE RACKET'' get it?

soft legal nerf balls thrown by Holder off camera

[treestar]

6. What is even going on there?

What a stupid Christmas Card.

[Marblehead]

7. they look so happy

the rest of us in the real world, not so much

[hughee99]

8. I have a hunch the headline was written even before the writer saw the card.

He should have gone with last year's picture of Dimon in a tattered jacket scratching lotto tickets in front of a Qwik-E-Mart with a scowl on his face. There's lots of good reasons to dislike Dimon and his ilk... this just isn't one of those.

[Nye Bevan]

9. I'm not one who automatically hates all rich people.

But I despise that card. It tells me everything about that prick that I need to know.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

10. Meh

I think this is a dumb thing to focus on.