In 1956 Cole Porter wrote a catchy song for the film High Society which featured a satirical comment on what is more powerful, love or money? The song, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" was performed by Frank Sinatra and Celeste Holm and became a popular standard.
Among the millionaire's riches rejected in the song are "a country estate"; "giant yacht", "caviar" and having "flashy flunkies everywhere". You know you've really made it when you've got flashy flunkies. There weren't so many millionaires around in those days but since then we have advanced to multi-millionaires, billionaires, multi-billionaires and now, courtesy of Elon Musk we have a "trillionaire". I fear "zillionaires"might be just around the corner and even a "squillionaire" can't be far off. Whoopee!
