To the editor: I can not consider something that depicts the rising chasm between the 1% and the remainder of American society than this 12 months’s Met Gala (“This 12 months’s Met Gala proved one factor: The true satan who wears Prada is Jeff Bezos,” Could 5). Whereas millionaires and billionaires dressed to impress, a majority of Individuals are coping with rising power, medical insurance coverage and housing prices. Every month, an increasing number of households are having to decide on what payments to pay or not pay.
With a authorities extra excited about regime change abroad than the price of residing, Monday evening’s occasion reminds us of simply how out of contact America’s elite is with the challenges of the individuals.
Tom Iannucci, Eugene, Ore.
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To the editor: I’ll by no means be invited to the Met Gala. No matter. However I’ve loved seeing the costumes and studying concerning the occasion immensely.
That was then. It’s useless to me now. It may be purchased. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos? Critically? Who’s invited subsequent 12 months, Mark Zuckerberg?
Marty Foster, Oxnard
