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Subject: [Leica] Ft. Wayne: Unemployment isn't working
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:27:40 +0530
References: <E990E43E-2A39-4352-8004-312E35F7011E@bex.net> <CABA754A.51832%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

Chris,
I think you got it the wrong way around. I think they are millionaires only
because they are careful with their money. To me the word 'stingy',
especially in the modern consumer context of keeping on consuming things
that you cannot afford, or do not really need, is a positive attribute!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Chris Crawford <
chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:

> We don't have one of those stores here. Despite the economic hard times,
> there are some very wealthy people here, but most of them are too
> tightfisted to spend money on a pan that costs so much that you could save
> $100 on it! Most of the truly wealthy here live in little houses in older
> neighborhoods, driving crappy cars and dressing in crappy clothes. I'm
> serious! I know A NUMBER OF people here worth millions who live like that
> by
> choice because they're simply stingy.
>
> Expensive pans won't sell here, even to the wealthy. Those here who buy
> such
> things are what our rich people refer to as 'nickel millionaires.' Those
> are
> people with middle class incomes who try to make people think they're
> wealthy by living above their means. Used to be a fairly large number of
> them, but not many of them left now, though!
>
>
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> On 10/11/11 10:01 PM, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
>
> > Bleakness, yes. And unintentional irony, too: The email just above
> Nathan's
> > "Unemployment isn't working" was from Williams-Sonoma, entitled "Save
> $100 on
> > the Perfect Pan for Flawless Eggs"
> >
> > Wonder how many of those Williams-Sonoma sells in Ft Wayne...
> >
> > ?howard
> >
> > On Oct 11, 2011, at 4:11 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> >
> >> A picture of bleakness, indeed.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Nathan
> >>
> >> On 11 Oct, 2011, at 10:00 , Chris Crawford wrote:
> >>
> >>> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?prodId=745&category=32
> >>>
> >>> I thought I better show something that was made with a Leica since the
> last
> >>> month has seen mostly medium format work from my trip out west. This
> was
> >>> made in my hometown, Fort Wayne, just a few days after I got home from
> my
> >>> trip to Santa Fe. It says a lot about conditions here.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Chris Crawford
> >
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