international Business Times - Are you a 1-percenter who needs a safe social media outlet to talk about your first-world problems, without the risk of alienating your commoner friends? Now you have an alternative to the impoverished unwashed masses of Facebook. Enter Netropolitan.club, an exclusive digital country club -- essentially, Facebook for rich people.
For a cool $9,000 first-year membership fee (and $3,000 a year every year after that), high-rollers can crowdsource names for their yachts or complain about having to fly commercial to a like-minded, sympathetic audience. Netropolitan is billing itself as “the world’s most exclusive online community,” one that will allow “affluent and accomplished individuals worldwide to socialize in a completely private and secure manner.” With the hefty subscription prices, Netropolitan can afford to be ad-free. And the posts will be moderated by the company's own "professional moderators." Businesses will be able to create groups and advertise to each other, albeit under strict guidelines, according to Netropolitan's information site.
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This is like that $100,000 bottle of whiskey: a pointless show that you can buy a bottle of 100K whiskey.
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
-Honore de Balzac
While there is so much wrong here I cringe, this could have unintended consequences. Since the 1% think this is a safe forum they will be more open about what they are doing. This may be an opportunity for those working to oppose the 1%, if this information can get out.
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