[Jewelry making - Article 00116] - Re: [Orchid] What will people pay for...

[Marya DeBlasi]

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    Ok, I went to the Times website and saw the "jewelery"  and now I am
    incensed.  If I were "god on the mountain" I would have made one
    more commandment---I would have forbid cynicism.  It is the most
    unforgivable sin; to think so little of your fellow man that you
    would attempt to sell her/him garbage, because "you know their going
    to buy it, and if I don't somebody else will."  It's a vile,
    despicable attitude and serves only to highlight what is worst about
    American business.

    And of the people who would buy it, suffice it to say that the rich
    are just as insecure as the poor, just as unsure of what is cool and
    what will make people love or envy them.  That is where the ultimate
    cynic comes in, the style writer at the New York Times.  Could it be
    that Marianne Rohrlich laughed as she typed, knowing Greenwich
    Village mommies who haven't been hip since they were too poor to
    dream about the real estate they now inhabit, would rush to be the
    first on the block in laminated paper?

    Are the girls in Brooklyn and out at the Paramus Mall wearing paper
    clip necklaces?  Could be...but I doubt it.  But watch this
    phenomenon carefully, as ghetto kids (as we discussed several weeks
    ago) are putting diamonds on their teeth, white ladies of a certain
    socio-economic strata are going to have to think of something less
    ostentatious to put around their slender necks....and if we don't
    sell it to them,  someone will.



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