I have a few thoughts on this, one if we lobby government to tax high earners more, 60-70% they will be forced to downsize their lifestyles stop spending so frivolously etc.
You see this across the board whereby children are furnished with every emerging commodity upon it's arrival, regardless of their overall interests, artist, animal lover, muscian, businessman, executive, their cultural proclivities and what they create become of secondary importance to what they buy.
Fine learn the saxophone but you will be a better saxophonist if you don't get an I pod to constantly listen to other people playing music, if you want to be an artist great but you wil be an inferior artist if you're furnished with laptops and ipods turning your waking life into a superficial process of representing the image of being artistic instead of actually doing work, if you want to be learned that's great I'll buy you the best education available, but you won't have mind numbing computer games or a television with which to distract your childish instincts.
Kingdon, who works at City Beacon, told HuffPostUK: "Many of my clients have no qualms about spending twenty to thirty grand on holidays, cars, designer clothes and much more on school fees."
People should have more conviction in their choices, especially what they consume and produce, the way things are for people "of money", the whole world it's opportunities and experiences opened completely to the market, the availability of "everything", makes the whole purpose of it all a sort of self indulgent, process of attainment, the commodity isn't enjoyed for a long period before it has to be augmented or replaced, nothing is mastered, who has the time to master things, interests aren't substantial and the process of production has come to reflect this.
Holidays are a scourge