Rich Old People
Have you ever noticed how weird rich old people look when you see them in newspapers or magazines or on television and they're smiling for the cameras because they've just donated a hospital wing or or an opera house or an art collection and snagged a huge taxbreak for their bottomless pits of wealth?
I mean, look at regular old people. Say... your parents or grandparents or... well... I guess or go look in the mirror, maybe, and tell me they (you) look anything like rich old people.
They (you) don't, do they (you)? And I'm not talking about actors and actresses in the United States, I mean the corporate elderly here in Canada. I don't know what they do look like, but they don't look like any old people I know.
So what is it? Is it the money? Do rich old people in our society have so much money that it actually makes them look... weird? Because, really. I think that's wrong, that we have homeless people begging for money on street corners on the one hand, and rich old people with so much money that it's making them look weird on the other.
