Reading her experience is really enlightening about how the rich just lives in their own realm of reality. The ruling class puts so much money into PR depicting them as "just like us" who engages in normal human behavior like paying for food and goods, because in reality they're so wealthy they are no longer doing such thing. Billionaires straight up just doesn't pay for stuff anymore, they can just go wherever whenever and have stuff handed to them.
Sorokin were able to stay in hotels in luxury, gets in touch with the ghouls, get loans, and travel around the world without paying for anything because everyone believed that she was a billionaire. Every time a bill bounced or something doesn't adds up she just invokes her class, and everyone else just bows out before her because who are they to question a billionaire? Meanwhile down in the working class we are constantly monitored to make sure that not single of our transactions is out of the line. Banks are ready to pounce us the moment our numbers came up funny, private security and the police is ready to straight up kill you for petty theft, landlords are always looking for excuses to make you homeless, and so on.
It also reveals how bullshit the "well almost none of that wealth is liquid" line is. When you're able to do literally anything you want on credit--either "real credit" from a bank or "smile and handshake" credit from your class status--liquidity has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Bezos or Musk could just buy or do anything by pure fiat, and nobody would ever ask them for a dime.
Reading her experience is really enlightening about how the rich just lives in their own realm of reality. The ruling class puts so much money into PR depicting them as "just like us" who engages in normal human behavior like paying for food and goods, because in reality they're so wealthy they are no longer doing such thing. Billionaires straight up just doesn't pay for stuff anymore, they can just go wherever whenever and have stuff handed to them.
Sorokin were able to stay in hotels in luxury, gets in touch with the ghouls, get loans, and travel around the world without paying for anything because everyone believed that she was a billionaire. Every time a bill bounced or something doesn't adds up she just invokes her class, and everyone else just bows out before her because who are they to question a billionaire? Meanwhile down in the working class we are constantly monitored to make sure that not single of our transactions is out of the line. Banks are ready to pounce us the moment our numbers came up funny, private security and the police is ready to straight up kill you for petty theft, landlords are always looking for excuses to make you homeless, and so on.
It also reveals how bullshit the "well almost none of that wealth is liquid" line is. When you're able to do literally anything you want on credit--either "real credit" from a bank or "smile and handshake" credit from your class status--liquidity has absolutely nothing to do with anything. Bezos or Musk could just buy or do anything by pure fiat, and nobody would ever ask them for a dime.
The West has truely swallowed the Ayn Rand propoganda of the 'great producers'. When America is abandoned, it will be the rats that leave first.