Palm Beach: Where the Gilded Age never ended
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Channel: CBS Sunday Morning
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Length: 9min 8sec (548 seconds)
Published: Sun Feb 05 2017
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I’ve worked on palm beach for 7 years now. I’ve worked at the club that is directly across from Mar-A-Lago (seriously, they use our overflow parking lot as their security check point) and I’ve worked for a building that is 80% Jewish. It truly is a world out of time.
The way I’ve always described it as that idealized 50’s America taken to the logical extreme. You know everyones name, they know yours, violent crime is VERY low, and all of the less savory folks are either kept out by a very biased police force or they are serving you your meals/cleaning up your messes/ parking your car. Very white, very catholic etc.
No accountability, no concept of the outside world, and you never have to leave the island, and if they do have to leave it absolutely ruins their day.
I occasionally do IT consulting on the Island, i jack my rates up incredibly and rarely have anyone notice. 99% of the people there are snobby fuckheads but i'm not there for friends. I'll charge a grand for the day and gtfo.
I occasionally work on the island doing survey work. I've been pulled over multiple times for a number of things, including "not wearing a seat belt," minus the one over my shoulder I suppose. I've never been given a ticket, but there is a real "gatekeeper" mentality. These people are the worst fucking people on the planet, and it is disgusting.
Reminds me of The Aerium from Altered Carbon.
I occasionally drive from the other coast to dive under the Blue Heron Bridge and was shocked at how bad the area is just west of the bridge considering how much money is in the area.
The excess is disgusting some of these people live in like 10000 square foot homes. Husband and wife.
I work here currently. What a shithole of culture