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Welcome to DIY Rich Guy Fantasy Camp

Why train to conduct a professional orchestra or become an astronaut when you can just buy the privilege of doing so? Shannon Proudfoot The Globe and Mail Published 16 minutes ago

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There’s this thing happening. Let’s call it DIY Rich Guy Fantasy Camp. It goes like this:

A very wealthy person reveres a certain field for which they have some amateur ability, but not nearly enough to get them to the top shelf on their own. So they pay to play, buying access to an experience that’s normally available only to a tiny rarefied circle.

It’s like those passes that allow you to skip the line at Disney – bu

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