conspicuous consumption gone too far?

The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

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But for conspicuous waste of money and resources it is hard to beat Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur who paid a reported $20 million for eleven days in space. Comedian Lewis Black said on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show that Ansari did it because it was "the only way she could achieve her life's goal of flying over every single starving person on earth and yelling `Hey, look what I'm spending my money on!'" (p. 10)