Ressentiment.

Things I could buy with $150,000:

• Shoes for the homeless.
• 300 heifers, 1250 sheep, or 7500 ducks.
• Job training and therapy for veterans.
• New textbooks for our public schools.
• 6 Toyota Priuses.
• Approximately 30,000 square meters of South American rainforest.
• Equipment to help young girls start their own businesses.
• Cancer research.
• Food and vaccinations for animal shelters.
• 150,000 cans of Campbell's soup for the soup kitchen.
• 6000 manatees.
• Daycare for working single mothers.
• HIV/AIDS education in Africa.
• 4166 trees to offset greenhouse gas emissions.
• College tuition for a couple deserving kids who couldn't afford to go otherwise.
• An entire freaking new home in the Lower 9th of New Orleans.

Or, you know, a $3000 Louis Vuitton handbag FOR MY SIX-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.