I love handbags

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158. So you're saying you think Aniston has a line of handbags named for her

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and doesn't profit form them? That would truly be a first, and that would make her a complete idiot. Even the most vapid celebrities generally have managers that don't let that happen.

Oprah is a problem but Aniston isn't? Fascinating conclusion on your part. How is it that you've decided that Aniston's multi-million dollar income doesn't qualify her as a 1%er? Do you realize that the mean annual income of the top 1% is $1.3 million http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Aniston earns well above that. What exactly is the difference between Jen and Oprah? Oprah is a well known philanthropist. I have never heard of Jennifer's contributions, but I'll take your word for it. And if she carries one of those $200k Birkin bags, would that be okay? In fact, here is an article devoted to "the many bags of Jennifer." http://www.purseblog.com/celebrities/of-jennifer-aniston.html
I guess expensive handbags just go better with certain skin completions.

There is always this approach, http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023442624
That involves the absence of consumption.
For some DUers,moral rectitude means buying cheap products made in Chinese sweatshops that pay non living wages, thereby subsidizing an economic model based on low wages for the many.

Income inequality is indeed a serious problem, but why you and others have decided that Oprah's nerve in wanting to LOOK at an expensive bag is responsible for global inequality is nothing short of bizarre. You clearly don't have a problem with people being rich or buying expensive handbags, given your admiration for Aniston. To pretend that Oprah is somehow more responsible than Aniston is really a function of nothing but your own personal views about the two women. For some reason you favor a talentless and unremarkable "actress" to a black woman born to poverty who just became wealthy and too uppity for your liking. You feel you can peer inside Oprah's soul and see what she thinks. I myself don't care much for either of these celebrities (or any, for that matter), but your exaltation of Aniston and demonization of Oprah is intellectually and morally inconsistent.