Lifestyles You Will Never Achieve
In case you weren't sure, an 80s hit TV show reminded you - weekly
“We’re rich and you’re not!”
There was an odd phenomenon in the 1980s. Everything was big. Excess was everywhere. Big hair, big shoulders, big dreams. And as Gordon Gekko so eloquently said, “Greed is good!”
This philosophy permeated popular culture in a manner that has, thankfully, not been seen since. The celebration of lavish, ostentatious living was never exemplified better than on the era’s Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous TV show.
The premise of this popular program was simple: watch how the one-percenters lived lavish and lascivious lives while we paupers looked on in earnest…and envy. Replete with excess in every aspect of these particular lives, the lifestyles of the rich and famous existed only in our dreams and on our TV sets, weekly.
The premise of this popular program was simple: watch how the one-percenters lived lavish and lascivious lives while we paupers looked on in earnest…and envy.
The extravagances were many. The excess was, well…excessive. You get it: the…
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