I don’t know how many Wall Street Journal subscribers would justify the periodical’s expense because they cannot get enough class envy, but that number cannot be zero.
Subscribers who clicked through on the paper’s latest dispatch from the rarified climes the “superrich” inhabit were perhaps intrigued by the dispatch’s provocative headline: The wealthy aren’t just “buying mansions” these days — “they want the entire block.” As the headline suggests, the story’s copy was replete with sotto voce condemnations of the garish excesses to which the well-off are prone.
This billionaire built himself a 6,000 square-foot guest house adjacent to his own, complete ...
