I was reminded, not long after posting my previous piece about the designer bags, of a program I saw once on television when a man pronounced with no trace of irony or shame that when he was introduced to people the first thing he did was check out what watch they were wearing. Because if they weren't wearing a really expensive one, like Cartier or Patek Phillipe then 'I know they're not the sort of people I want to know'.
It didn't seem to occur to him that probably a large proportion of the people he felt he didn't want to know because they didn't wear designer timepieces probably didn't want to know him because he judged people by how much money they had and what they spent it on.
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