Additionally, Knowles could have built upon Veblen’s less famous theory of ‘conspicuous leisure’ when looking at the wealthy’s use of paid domestic service. Serious Money is littered with references to ‘servants’, but they are given the most focus in the chapter where Knowles talks to ‘Butler’, a loyal household manager for Middle-Eastern royals for the previous seventeen years. Though he is subordinate to his employers, he is still a manager and quite patronising towards those working below him: ‘The first thing you do, you get on the right side of the Filipinos […] They’re very nice people. They’re very hardworking […] If they go against you, they’re going to make your life hell’ (187-88). We meet two wealthy neighbours from Notting Hill, ‘Palace’ and ‘Desk’, who volunteered to support the victims of the disaster. This included handing out clothes to the affected families, but Palace’s charity was met with resentment when she donated second-hand designer clothes: ‘There is only so much a large lady of Muslim origin can do with a tiny Gucci handbag […] One woman said to me in disgust “I don’t want someone else’s clothes”’ (122). Desk is also nervous, simultaneously pitying those affected while defending her councillor friends who worked for the council found liable for a number of the deaths. Knowles masterfully captures the unease of plutocrats wrestling with the fact that they are the cause of inequality and not its solution.

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