rich are different
they possess, enjoy early
does something to them
Let me tell you about the very rich.
They are different from you and me.
They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.
They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves.
Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are.
Excepted from Rich Boy by F. Scott Fitzgerald as published in Redbook Magazine in two parts in January and February, 1926.
The end comes for empire when the top 1% of the money realizes they no longer need the structure of the empire to support their wealth.
How close are we getting to that point?
I feel like I am living a James Bond novel and the evil bad guy is .. us.
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