RE: UKNM: Dot Com Fever

[Tim.Hayward]

It was a pretty spooky bit of synergy wasn't it.


By bizarre coincidence I was idly watching it whilst folding the stack of

Turnbull and Asser shirts I splurged my first big NM paycheck on.


The thing that really got me though was how much Gatsby and Fitzgerald were

driven by the same idea. If you have enough new money you can convince

people

that you are 'Old Money'. The reality, of course, is that the more new money

you

have the more arriviste Old Money finds you.


The parallels between this and New Economy - Old Economy are quite striking.


Intriguing, also, is the level of drive and self delusion in those caught up

in

it.



I just have this horrible vison of a .com 'entrepreneur' sitting amid a pile

of

immaculately folded Comme des Garcons, staring at the green light and

thinking..."I had more money on paper than General Motors yet they still

wouldn't take me seriously as a business".



T



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