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Think about the other side of this - the host side. For hosts of these experiences, they don't need to be rich or capital-owning at all in order to be exposed to people of many different backgrounds through experiences.


To experience the rich capital owners of other countries?


i think would be very cool if there was an app that would do the reverse and enable the have-nots to have what the haves have, even for a short period of time:

- private heli trip to a private island villa,

- 300' yachts, aventadors, 488s, 911s all free to use,

- private shopping sessions (fully paid for) at hermes, chanel,

- meet-and-greets w/ robuchon, redzepi etc,

- take a whimsical trip to some middle of nowhere farm to work for a day..

at a totally affordable price for the typical middle class in a middling country.

it's not real obviously, it's all a show, rich people don't live like this every day, just substantially more likely to experience something like this than the not-so-rich.

obviously, it's not going to happen, but it is a hope.


So your idea is for an app that would allow anyone to have private heli trips to island villas and free-to-use Aventadors for a "totally affordable" price?

Is that right?


That's sorta of the point of resorts and cruises.


And Vegas! The underlying reason all of those things suck.

Relevant: David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again." You should read it — it's a hilarious takedown of these sorts of experiences (specifically a 7 day Caribbean cruise).


Is it the same as the essay "Shipping Out", that David Foster Wallace published in Harper's Magazine in the mid-90s?

https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazi...


Yep! That'd be it.


My parents have money and love cruises.

I don't get it at all. I suppose it's because it's cheap if you know how to hunt down a deal.




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