Quoted from here. It’s a curated collection of expensive, luxury objects ‘picked’ by characters from Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend. The one I picked is an ultra luxury clock owned by Louis XV circa 1754 selected by Oliver Tsien, director of Asian antiquities at Christie’s. I think this quote is very, very appropriate. With the growing middle class professionals in Singapore and other first world countries, people have been forgetting the rich-poor divide that was so apparent in the olden days. If you were an aristocrat or part of a wealthy familly, you could buy nice things. If you were not, you couldn’t. Nowadays, the dynamic is hardly so simple, and it has been confusing and wrecking the lives of many. Things obviously cost money, which is however much you have to pay for it. ‘Affording’ something, however, is much murkier. If I have $3000 in my bank ......