Accustomed to large, glamorous rooms, good food, and sophisticated — or, at least, affluent — company, Jasmine is offended by everything in Ginger's working-class life.
While Mr. Tom's firm attracts a more affluent clientele, other companies report a broad customer base.
It has sold about 1,000 a year, for about $100,000 apiece, to affluent entrepreneurs, limousine companies and a sprinkling of celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and the rapper Coolio.
When my organization's telecommunications experts looked at the issue a few years ago, they concluded, "Without net neutrality, the result would likely be a sort of internet apartheid, with the least affluent individuals and companies relegated to the slowest lanes with the least access.
The tears over the increased cost of child care at Google may or may not have something to do with employees, who nearly all receive share options, feeling less affluent as the company's share price hovers around $544, down around 27% from a 52-week high of $747 last November.
While the Obama administration has set the crucial foundation for action, Congress frustratingly continues to impede initiatives at the behest of affluent coal and oil companies donating to their campaigns.
They've done so because of the current imperatives of the market: with the price of raw materials skyrocketing in the face of China rapid industrialization and economic growth in the affluent world flat-lining, companies have ample new markets but no real pricing power.
Hinckley told me that creative, affluent professionals are the company's typical customers.
It is true that we are witnessing a rising stockmarket as the affluent buy up existing assets, and companies buy other companies or their own stock.
In the middle of the current budget negotiations, these Republicans argue that the tax increases the Democrats are proposing — ending some deductions for the affluent, hitting oil and gas companies — would be terrible for the economy.
