Friday, February 1, 2008

A BARGAIN AT ONE THOUSANDTH THE PRICE — by Steve Nadis

I always thought it was crazy to pay $100 for a ticket to a rock concert, but I didn’t know what crazy meant. I found out from an article in yesterday’s Boston Globe. Two Super Bowl tickets on eBay are selling for $77,000 and a luxury suite in Glendale, Arizona is going for $224, 824. If you add them up, that amounts to more than $300,000 for the Super Bowl weekend. Which brings me back to the word I started with: crazy. Some people must be just to consider something like that–or even to consider asking for a sum like that. But maybe they’re not crazy; maybe they just have too much damn money.
Posted by Snake at 05:13:53
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3 Responses to “A BARGAIN AT ONE THOUSANDTH THE PRICE — by Steve Nadis”

  1. guttersnake says:
    February 1, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    Let me give you another piece of confusion. Where I am currently, an Afghani doesn’t make enough money in a week to buy a large sack of flour to feed his family for the coming month, so he buys on with his neighbor and they share. However, AK-47 rifles are openning purchased for some two thousand American dollars under the idea that they can fight US and Afghan Army forces to “better there lives”.

    I don’t think it has so much to do with having too much money as it has to do with misguided priorities and a lack of appreciation for what else large sums of money can do.

  2. guttersnake says:
    February 1, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    I should proof read my shit…

  3. Anonymous says:
    February 1, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    Thanks GS for a novel perspective, coming as you do from one of the far corners of the world. –SNAKE

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