The list seems dumb to me. If you've got the money, why not spend it? One guy spent $12,000 on video game stuff. So what? Like the thing said, he was rich and fucking Janet Jackson. What the hell else did he have to spend the money on?
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell