How getting the blue tick on Twitter became end goal of the influencer generation

Shopping may be the hobbyhorse of the well-heeled, but there are some things money just can’t buy. Picasso paintings and gold-encrusted golf clubs can be procured easily enough. Supercars are passé. Private jets are cool, but there’s no guarantee some sleepy missile operator is going to smoke you out of the sky. Insurance money is worthless in the afterlife.

Luxury yachts are old hats. Arks cost a lot more than they did in Noah’s day, but a DIY-boat kit might be a good investment. The sea levels are rising again, or so, tweets Greta Thunberg. Gods speak from the keyboards of babes and sucklings. If keeping one’s head above water wasn’t hard enough, automation is putting millions out of work.