I hope this isn't too meta, but journalist's absolutely love starting stories like this, and it's pretty nauseating: > ... the members-only Manhattan social cl

I hope this isn't too meta, but journalist's absolutely love starting stories like this, and it's pretty nauseating: > ... the members-only Manhattan social club frequented by Kim Kardashian and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, were greeted with flutes of Champagne. Offerings of sliced raw tuna on crispy rice and roasted maitake mushrooms awaited them as heads turned to admire an Andy Warhol and a Keith Haring, while New Order throbbed in the background. These "gasp, look at the fancy menus!" intros always serve the same purpose, which is to caricaturize the people involved as "out of touch rich guys". There is plenty in what happened here to simply highlight the mistakes these people made. Plus, as other commenters have mentioned, the bigger issue which the article doesn't quite grasp is depreciation. I tend to immediately discount stories that start with "look at these fancy things rich people do" because it almost always indicates the article author is trying to get the facts to fit their predetermined narrative.