To the editor: I can not consider something that depicts the rising chasm between the 1% and the remainder of American society than this yr’s Met Gala (“This year’s Met Gala proved one thing: The real devil who wears Prada is Jeff Bezos,” Could 5). Whereas millionaires and billionaires dressed to impress, a majority of Individuals are coping with rising vitality, medical insurance coverage and housing prices. Every month, increasingly more households are having to decide on what payments to pay or not pay.
With a authorities extra involved in regime change abroad than the price of dwelling, Monday night time’s occasion reminds us of simply how out of contact America’s elite is with the challenges of the folks.
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 lifeless to me now. It may be purchased. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos? Severely? Who’s invited subsequent yr, Mark Zuckerberg?
Marty Foster, Oxnard
