In Miami and elsewhere, the wealthy are moving in increasingly private spheres, shelling out big money to bypass the indignities of public life
When developers Masoud and Stephanie Shojaee dined out recently, they headed to the members-only section of MILA restaurant in Miami Beach, Fla., where they were whisked to a table already bearing their favorite cocktails and chopsticks engraved with their names.
On a business trip to Dubai last month, the Shojaees exited their Bombardier Global jet and later stepped into a waiting Maybach that zipped them to a lavish hotel. They went through a private entrance that bypassed the lobby and took an elevator straight up to the Royal Suite, where a staffer checked them in and presented their butler.
The ultrawealthy are wielding their growing fortunes to glide through a rarefied realm unencumbered by the inconveniences of ordinary life. They don’t wait in lines. They don’t jostle with airport crowds or idle unnecessarily in traffic.
The curation extends to the couple’s clothes shopping. They no longer go to high-end malls. Instead, Masoud gets a large suitcase of items from NB44, a members-only apparel brand, shipped to him every quarter, while Stephanie regularly receives racks of new collections from brands like Valentino and Christian Dior along with an alterationist to make any adjustments.
The rich elites of this country have far more in common with their counterparts in London, Paris, and Tokyo than with their fellow American citizens.
They are almost like a new species of humans eg:“Masters of The Universe”
A life with almost no limits.
The super-rich have achieved escape velocity from the gravitational pull of the very society they rule over.
This is what income inequality has wrought. Perhaps a return to the Middle Ages where royalty lived a life uncomprehendingly to a serf. Just imagine the household of Musk or Bezos.