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* New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is the 20th richest person in the world. He's also a very popular and, by most accounts very effective, three term mayor. Also probably incorruptible, for the simple reason that it's hard to bribe a man who has $22 billion.
* New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is the 20th richest person in the world. He's also a very popular and, by most accounts very effective, three term mayor. Also probably incorruptible, for the simple reason that it's hard to bribe a man who has $22 billion.
* You probably. If you have internet access (like everyone here) and live in a place of high technology and [[The Trains Run On Time|reasonably competent government]] as do a good portion you are by comparison definitely rich, [[First World Problems|even if it doesn't feel that way.]] You are, it follows, either [[Idle Rich]] or [[Non-Idle Rich]] or [[Take a Third Option|each by turns depending on the situation.]]
* You probably. If you have internet access (like everyone here) and live in a place of high technology and [[The Trains Run On Time|reasonably competent government]] as do a good portion you are by comparison definitely rich, [[First World Problems|even if it doesn't feel that way.]] You are, it follows, either [[Idle Rich]] or [[Non-Idle Rich]] or [[Take a Third Option|each by turns depending on the situation.]]
* According to legend when [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Ney Marshal Ney]'s (noted general under Napoleon) neighbor was drooling over his mansion, he told him, "Tell you what, stand over their and I will take ten shots at you. If you are still alive you can have my mansion." When his neighbor was understandably reluctant, Ney pointed out that he had had far more rounds shot at him from that range to get that mansion.
* According to legend when [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Ney Marshall Ney]'s (noted general under Napoleon) neighbor was drooling over his mansion, he told him, "Tell you what, stand over their and I will take ten shots at you. If you are still alive you can have my mansion." When his neighbor was understandably reluctant, Ney pointed out that he had had far more rounds shot at him from that range to get that mansion.
* Juan Trippe (he was actually as [[New England|Yankee as they come]]: the out of place name comes from his great-uncle's wife), was one of the founders of the Pan Am Empire. He was born to [[Old Money]] and leveraged that into his real interest which was airplanes. He was a Yale man and a member of the Skulls & Bones society, and would sponsor Yale's first flying team. Later he became one of the bosses of one of the most recognized commercial lines in the world and [[Spy From Weights and Measures|incidently]], through under the table subsidies, an instrument of [[Hegemonic Empire|secret power projection]] at a time when the US Army was a skeleton and the Navy and Marines were busy with [[Gunboat Diplomacy|constabulary]], [[The Sand Pebbles|duties.]] And when there was no [[OSS]]. This helped increase his private empire as well as incidently increasing Uncle Sam's, not to mention preparing for [[World War 2]] secretly during the time of Isolation. This was also, not incidently, the time of the famous "Clipper" flying boats, which invoked romantic memories of ships in the sailing era. During the war Pan Am provided a route for fast travel including the only route to China for a long time.
* Juan Trippe (he was actually as [[New England|Yankee as they come]]: the out of place name comes from his great-uncle's wife), was one of the founders of the Pan Am Empire. He was born to [[Old Money]] and leveraged that into his real interest which was airplanes. He was a Yale man and a member of the Skulls & Bones society, and would sponsor Yale's first flying team. Later he became one of the bosses of one of the most recognized commercial lines in the world and [[Spy From Weights and Measures|incidently]], through under the table subsidies, an instrument of [[Hegemonic Empire|secret power projection]] at a time when the US Army was a skeleton and the Navy and Marines were busy with [[Gunboat Diplomacy|constabulary]], [[The Sand Pebbles|duties.]] And when there was no [[OSS]]. This helped increase his private empire as well as incidently increasing Uncle Sam's, not to mention preparing for [[World War 2]] secretly during the time of Isolation. This was also, not incidently, the time of the famous "Clipper" flying boats, which invoked romantic memories of ships in the sailing era. During the war Pan Am provided a route for fast travel including the only route to China for a long time.
* Donald McKay was a famous shipbuilder and was known for some of the most beautiful ships in US history, ships which appeared in paintings and in poems.
* Donald McKay was a famous shipbuilder and was known for some of the most beautiful ships in US history, ships which appeared in paintings and in poems.
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