AN Awesome Astounding Abundance of DOUBTS ; ...You could say he represents one percent of the one percent, the cream of the cream. The very sunlight seems to rearrange itself around him to illustrate that he’s a person of some stature.
Even from a distance he looks like a fabulous emissary from a world of superior tailoring and hairdressing. Perhaps its because his skin glows courtesy of what I presume are the organically farmed sustainable vegetables his live-in chef prepares for him nightly. Further study reveals, for a man in his fifties, a notable absence of worry lines.
People like this, and there are many of them, now live in an alternate Harry Potter universe of comfort and ease that we mere mortals can never enter.
They are not bad people, mostly. I have some experience of being in their rarefied orbit and I have learned this much -- their concerns are not as yours or mine.
In fact we might as well be speaking Urdu to them these days. Increasingly we’re just a kind of hive-like background noise they hear in the time it takes to walk from the cab to the club.
I listened as someone asked this man this week if he was at all worried about the growing sense most Americans have that the nation’s super-rich have decoupled themselves from the fate of the nation?
He was worried, he replied. It’s very worrying to think that the majority of people in the nation are starting to think dark thoughts about what the future really holds for them and the rest of the middle class.
That wasn’t the part that spooked me. Asked if he had any suggestions about what to do to stop the one percent from their increasing isolationism, their retreat from the life of the nation, he said this -- no. He had not one idea.
This is one of the senior economic advisers to the Obama administration. He was charged with the task of rescuing America from the sea of economic troubles that surround it. He was stumped.
In fairness to him, he was given a particular job to do involving a targeted industry and he performed his task to the satisfaction of all. I don’t doubt his competence.
What I do worry about is the strength of his (and other people in his income bracket) commitment to the democratic ideal of equality.
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AN Awesome Astounding Abundance of DOUBTS ; ...You could say he represents one percent of the one percent, the cream of the cream. The very sunlight seems to rearrange itself around him to illustrate that he’s a person of some stature.
ReplyDeleteEven from a distance he looks like a fabulous emissary from a world of superior tailoring and hairdressing.
Perhaps its because his skin glows courtesy of what I presume are the organically farmed sustainable vegetables his live-in chef prepares for him nightly. Further study reveals, for a man in his fifties, a notable absence of worry lines.
People like this, and there are many of them, now live in an alternate Harry Potter universe of comfort and ease that we mere mortals can never enter.
They are not bad people, mostly. I have some experience of being in their rarefied orbit and I have learned this much -- their concerns are not as yours or mine.
In fact we might as well be speaking Urdu to them these days. Increasingly we’re just a kind of hive-like background noise they hear in the time it takes to walk from the cab to the club.
I listened as someone asked this man this week if he was at all worried about the growing sense most Americans have that the nation’s super-rich have decoupled themselves from the fate of the nation?
He was worried, he replied. It’s very worrying to think that the majority of people in the nation are starting to think dark thoughts about what the future really holds for them and the rest of the middle class.
That wasn’t the part that spooked me. Asked if he had any suggestions about what to do to stop the one percent from their increasing isolationism, their retreat from the life of the nation, he said this -- no. He had not one idea.
This is one of the senior economic advisers to the Obama administration. He was charged with the task of rescuing America from the sea of economic troubles that surround it. He was stumped.
In fairness to him, he was given a particular job to do involving a targeted industry and he performed his task to the satisfaction of all. I don’t doubt his competence.
What I do worry about is the strength of his (and other people in his income bracket) commitment to the democratic ideal of equality.
Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/manhattan_diary/americas-super-rich-have-no-plan-for-the-middle-class-197759841.html#ixzz2O6jdXGW1
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