Fake the wealth until you reach it.
You only need google "vegan skewers" to know that it's not just chicken: vegan cheese, tofu, fake meats, a wealth of vegetables, it's all there for the taking.
The image haunted Gresham for years, supplying Nightmare Alley with its opening scene and inspiring the rest of the book, a violent and disturbing voyage through tarot, mind reading, carnival life, psychoanalysis and spiritualism, as cold reader Stan Carlisle graduates from sideshows to fake religion, seeking wealth.
Russia did "superpower turns into a dystopia of fake democracy, mega-wealth for a few, and economic decimation for the rest" ages ago!
If Tupac is hip-hop's Gandhi, the peeling Bob Marley poster on the wall of a generation of students, Biggie was the single greatest talent hip-hop ever produced: fat, slovenly, proud of eating sardines from a can, rapping about sexual inadequacies, and then – once he'd made it – about the fake adulation that came with wealth and power.
The videotape was accompanied by a written statement saying that the "British infidels and occupiers" had "confessed and declared their agenda that they came to steal our wealth under the fake cover they used and claimed to be advisers to the Finance Ministry".
In the first video, on 4 December 2007, they also made reference to a financial motive: "They [the hostages] have confessed and given details of plans in which they came to loot our wealth under the fake cover of being consultants at the finance ministry.
After all, the New York Times had once suggested that he had avoided taxes, and others that he was faking the extent of his wealth.
Then there it was, a shining beacon of consumerism, nestled into the landscape, this landmark, Prada Marfa, a fake Prada store, a symbol of wealth and prosperity.
Aging with blond hair offers the choice of keeping up those fake honeyed tones that we associate with wealth or glamour — artifice, yes, but artifice that is imbued with its own appeal, that is separate from authenticity, but rewardednonetheless.
