It could also be that Elton John just has too much money. After all, he earned it fair and square by writing songs, selling records, and making a fool out of himself wearing ridiculous outfits and outrageous glasses in public. Of course he could have taken another career path to make that money, like posing for Penthouse as Paula Jones did, so let s be thankful for small favors. The problem is he s setting a bad example for the youth of today. Well, those who accidentally stumble across his CDs while looking for the new one from Britney Aguilera and stop to wonder why Uncle Dudley s photo is on the cover.
Teenagers already think that the pursuit of money is a goal unto itself.
They want to grow up to be Bill Gates. They think they re a failure if they don t sell an Internet start-up to AOL by the time they re eighteen. They know there are 2 million millionaires and 267 billionaires in the United States and they want to be one, unlike me who has a low seven-figure income only if you count the two zeroes to the right of the decimal point. That s a lot of people with a lot of money. In fact, it s more people than live in West Virginia.