Appeal to Wealth
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When you use financial status as an argument even though it is not relevant to the discussion. This can be done in two opposite ways; you can present wealthy people or expensive things as being better, or you can present wealth as a vice by suggesting that poorer people must be more honest or hardworking, or that the wealthy must be corrupt.
Example
Appeal to poverty: Big Pharma makes billions every year. They just want to keep us sick while they make their money.
Appeal to Wealth: This anti-wrinkle cream is really expensive so it must work really well.
Famous Examples
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The beauty of me is that I’m very rich.
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If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, "he that is not with me is against me". The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security.
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