Tinnitus produces a ringing sound in the ear, satellite generators, a hum. Compactors, hydraulic drills pounding into pavement and the beeping of trucks backing up are a municipal orchestra but on another decibel class. These are the equivalent of a nouveau riche individual trying to establish themselves in an aristocratic environment. Gold diggers is the word pejoratively used to describe those who marry for money. In an episode of the 50s TV series Death Valley Days centering on the San Francisco gold rush of 1848, a couple who have discovered gold run into trouble spending it.They acquire the big San Francisco mansion but sit at opposite ends of a long table whose chairs are vacant when invited members of the ruling class fail to arrive. Social elevation and sound then share the Doppler effect. As the parvenu grows closer and their supplications rise so too does the pushback from those who still control the systole and diastole of social and political power.
read "The Waste Land" by Francis Levy (illustrated with "Pluperfect" by Hallie Cohen), The East Hampton Star