Rich People Have to Golf Instead of Ski Because of the Warm Weather

What’s worse than white people problems (besides real ones)?

Rich people problems, of course!

InvestmentNews has a Bloomberg article detailing the travails of Winthrop Smith Jr. (his real name), a onetime Merrill Lynch & Co. exec who now owns the Warren, Vermont-based Sugarbush Resort.

Smith tells reporters that unseasonably warm weather has dealt a blow to the resort, as 15 percent fewer skiers have visited the resort compared to 2011.

“It’s very much like my old world,” Smith says. “You can’t control the market; you can’t control the weather. So you just have to learn how to manage the different environments.”

Don’t cue the violin quite yet — the well off will still have sporty ways to unwind.

Golf managers, in the true spirit of American capitalism, have taken advantage of semi-sunny skies to lure bored rich people to the green — especially in the Northeast.

A semi-private golf club in New Jersey, for example, sold 1000 rounds in January. On a particularly balmy, 60-degree Saturday, over 190 golfers took to the greens — which would be high for the summer — reports indicate.

Good to know that there are still a few places where people can spend their significant expendable incomes without having to worry about all that climate change stuff.

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