"Wearing a Loro Piana sweater on a yacht that's strategically anchored in international waters so as to avoid any criminal financial culpability. Organic blueberries. Buying organic blueberries from a weekday farmers' market. Buying organic blueberries from a weekday farmers' market after laying off half your staff via e-mail ("Sent from my iPhone"). A bottle of Aesop hand wash in your bathroom. A bottle of Aesop hand wash in your guest bathroom."
"A bottle of Aesop hand wash in each and every one of your twelve guest bathrooms, plus a bottle of Dom Pérignon in each and every one of your five double-wide fridges, and a bottle of lorazepam for anyone who asks. A Herman Miller Eames lounge chair. Lounging in a mint-condition, fifties-era Herman Miller Eames chair inherited from a grand-uncle with a dubious past in the oil industry."
A series of luxury items is listed, beginning with a Loro Piana sweater and escalating to yachts anchored in international waters to avoid criminal financial culpability. Organic blueberries and weekday farmers' markets serve as cultivated tastes juxtaposed with layoffs via e-mail. Aesop hand wash multiplies into dozens of guest bathrooms alongside Dom Pérignon stocked in multiple fridges and lorazepam for guests. A mint-condition Herman Miller Eames chair connects inherited wealth to dubious family histories. A purebred Russian wolfhound becomes a status prop in a commissioned oil painting stored on a yacht until the I.R.S. is dismantled. A finely tailored trenchcoat concludes the inventory with ostentatious branding.
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