Tiffany & Co. has a large ad in The New York Times (page A3, March 20, 2010) for a "butterfly brooch of diamonds and sapphires set in platinum."
"Spring Is In The Air," reads the ad's headline, accompanied by an image of the beautiful piece of jewelry.
Price?
$56,000.
Who buys this?
The same people who complain about taxes they cannot afford?
The same people who lament excess [excess!] on the part of government trying to serve its constituents?
I do not dispute the right of anyone to sell this, nor of anyone to buy this. Free market. Laissez-faire. All that. I am not disputing that right legally or morally. After all, I don't know: perhaps the person who buys this also writes, moments later, a check to Doctors Without Borders, for Haiti relief.
Perhaps.
I make no further comment.
Pause for reflection.
Reflection.
That's all.
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