February, 8th, 2015

UNFASHIONABLEACCOUNTSOFENVY
$100 billion | 106,000 clients | 203 countries

Frankly, the #SwissLeaks débalage is obscene. Digital plébéiens are on the loose. Comments are atrocious. For what dissent? What is doubtful about private banking? I consulted the #ICIJ files about the people of money in fashion but reporting on them is as indecent as sharing pictures of innocent people being burnt or assassinated in the last weeks. That old idea that wealth is imposed on the tabula rasa of moral’s consciousness is ridiculous. Truth is every single one of the stereotypes about money are based in one social realities: voyeurism. Bon ton has absolutely collapsed.

This #HSBC débâcle – data of 2006 leaked in 2015 – is so roué, démodé. Yet it disgraced the reputations of #ElleMacPherson @ElleMacPhersonofficial, Diane Halfin von Furstenberg @DVF, #Valentino @realMrValentino @MaisonValentino and Jacques @DessangeParis in to resentful folly and envy insularity. This is wrong. Wealthy is healthy when you worked hardly, passionately. Sheltering it in offshore accounts is the moral not the legal tax compass.

#Money per se is still taboo.

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