<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by pynchonesque:
BWatson, you seem to imply that my perspective belongs together with tie-dye and granola. But I think it applies even to someone like you, who places much importance in his self-described high socioeconomic status. I don't think anyone genuinely wealthy cares about 1K benefits being "diluted." FF benefits are the stuff of middle management peeing games. The genuinely wealthy fly paid F and don't care, or fly discounted coach and don't care, and don't spend hours or days of their time worrying about what color card UA is going to give them or how many drink chits they'll get.</font>
And some people think Bill Gates should be playing at the high roller's table, gambling big amounts of $$.
The reality being the world's wealthiest man plays low-stake poker because he enjoys the game.
Wealth (or lack of it) isn't a direct correlation to what a person enjoys doing. Poor people can have expensive habits and rich people could be eating the early bird special.