The Rise of the New Global Elite

F. Scott Fitzgerald was right when he declared the rich different from you and me. But today’s super-rich are also different from yesterday’s: more hardworking and meritocratic, but less connected to the nations that granted them opportunity—and the countrymen they are leaving ever further behind. … “She turns to me and she goes, ‘You know, the thing about 20 [million] is, 20 is only 10 after taxes.’ And everyone at the table is nodding. …”

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Jan 4, 2011
Length: 29 minutes (7,475 words)
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