Comments on: Forbes 400

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 23:42:07 +0000

How many of the Richest 400 would be on the list of the Happiest 400?

By: Michael R

Michael R — Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:51:28 +0000

Is there an actual visceral enjoyment of seeing how rich some people are? And entertainment in seeing them get richer? I guess there is if you’re reading Forbes.

By: Martin Wisse

Martin Wisse — Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:56:03 +0000

Hey, ten percent of their net worth is about what Bush asked for in Iraq…. I see possibilities.

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:47:49 +0000

Finally. At last. Not before time. I thought they would never. I’ve been waiting and waiting. Etc. Why, there are rich people of my acquaintance who only have four houses and four Mercedes. It’s an outrage!

By: Kieran Healy

Kieran Healy — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:47:21 +0000

“Declining values”? It’s too early for me to be properly pedantic, but isn’t that valuation? Nah. Fortune’s constituency thinks valuation is the same as value, just as it thinks an inheritance is the same as heritability.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:16:48 +0000

“Declining values”? It’s too early for me to be properly pedantic, but isn’t that valuation? And a whole two years. The poor dears, we should have started a collection or something.