Anyone who would pay $750 for a cupcake is both a fool and a disgrace.
Totally disagree and that's sort of an ignorant thing to say. Those people are actually doing a great service to capitalism and our economy.
Think of the waiter who will get a $150+ tip on that meal (at least). Think of how much money the chef and the owners of the restaurant will be making. All good.
I once got into an argument at work with somebody over Bill Gates' billion dollar luxury yacht. She was all indignant that people would spend that much money on a yacht. She went on to say that nobody should ever buy a luxury yacht because it is such a frivolous way to spend money when he could "spend it on the poor." Typical liberal argument.
I then went on to tell her that if people stopped buying luxury yachts, the entire industry would have to fold. Working people whose livelihoods depended upon building the yachts, sailing the yachts and maintaining the yachts, etc., would be cast out of work and they would then be joining the ranks of the poor. I went on to say that if we applied that reasoning to all luxuries, our economy would collapse and then most of us would be out of work and poor.
That did seem to shut her up.