Living in a material world.

Does anyone remember Imelda Marcos the President of the Philippines wife? It was rumored she had over 3,000 pairs of shoes. Damn, and I thought my closet was crowded. She eventually opened her own shoe museum. Boy, won't the kids be mad you took them to Disneyland instead. Like all women she still complained to her husband, "I have nothing to wear". Poor guy dropped dead. Considering the Philippine people on average live below the poverty level, how did she not feel guilty flaunting so much wealth? How about the Sheikhs of Saudi Arabia. They have so much money they can buy property in N.Y, drive around in gold trimmed Rolls Royce cars, and are some of the world's wealthiest rulers. So why are they walking around wearing a hijab (literally translated as curtain)? It's the 20th century, even the Romans don't wear togas any more. Maybe it's so the average Saudi who lives in a home that looks like downtown Baghdad after it was leveled won't be jealous. History is riddled with leaders who spend their time building monumental palaces, gardens and memorials to themselves, all the while their people live in squalor and starve. Living in a material world, not bad if you own all the material.