Ethics

Times are Tough All Over

By Ed Brayton

The Wall Street Journal reports that rich people are feeling the pinch of hard economic times so much that they're cutting back on allowances and gifts for their mistresses (and misters - 1/3 of respondents to the study were women):

According to a new survey by Prince & Assoc., more than 80% of multimillionaires who had extra-marital lovers planned to cut back on their gifts and allowances. Still, only 12% of the multimillionaire cheaters said they plan to give up on their lovers altogether for financial reasons.

"Rich people are getting hit, and they're all expressing the need to curtail unnecessary spending," said Russ Alan Prince, president of Prince & Assoc., a wealth-research firm based in Connecticut. "Lovers are part of the same calculation."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 26, 2008 (boomark / email).