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The story I found most interesting in John D. MacDonald's collection The End of the Tiger is the longest one, about the trap of gold. He's saying that corporations of the time -- late 50s to early 60s expected their executives to maintain too high of a lifestyle on too small of a salary. The executive main character is in line to be CEO someday, and now gets around $25,000 which was a terrific salary then, but he and his wife are expected to maintain a certain status lifestyle, and the strain becomes too much for them. We think of thrift as an old-fashioned virtue, and they did what they could, but were still required to buy things too expensive for them. They couldn't just use any old carpet cleaners raleigh nc, especially since they lived in an expensive suburb in Connecticut even though he worked in New York City.