If Wilde Were a Futurist…

I had one of those curious net-immersed serendipities this morning, when I came upon this rather shattering opening sentence of what was otherwise, for me, a pretty crappy and conventional article:

Someday, the only difference between the rich and the poor will be the amount of advertising they're subjected to.

Caveats aside, nuances demanded, that pithy little brickbat snagged something really useful, I think.