Visible class distinctions characterized ancient Rome, Renaissance Florence, the Paris of the nineteenth century, and the major cities of twentieth century America.
His reported wealth of $71 billion makes him the world's fifth-richest man.
The nineteenth-century gap between a rich man in his fine carriage-with footman and driver-and someone walking three miles to work has disappeared.
For a hundred dollars, a man can go into Wal-Mart, buy Chinese-made slacks, a dress shirt, tie, and shoes, and look basically like a Wall Street investor with an ostensibly similar $10,000 imported Italian wardrobe.
Mark Zuckerberg may look like an average American, but that does not mean he has the same interests or lives a similar sort of life as ordinary citizens.
Which raises an interesting point: People like Zuckerberg are actually far more powerful than their looks suggest.
His loud clothes, garish jet, and American boosterism were in your face, and allowed Americans to draw their own conclusions-and, in contrast, made vastly rich progressive activists like Tom Steyer and Al Gore seem disingenuous.
https://www.hoover.org/research/camouflaged-elites
His reported wealth of $71 billion makes him the world's fifth-richest man.
The nineteenth-century gap between a rich man in his fine carriage-with footman and driver-and someone walking three miles to work has disappeared.
For a hundred dollars, a man can go into Wal-Mart, buy Chinese-made slacks, a dress shirt, tie, and shoes, and look basically like a Wall Street investor with an ostensibly similar $10,000 imported Italian wardrobe.
Mark Zuckerberg may look like an average American, but that does not mean he has the same interests or lives a similar sort of life as ordinary citizens.
Which raises an interesting point: People like Zuckerberg are actually far more powerful than their looks suggest.
His loud clothes, garish jet, and American boosterism were in your face, and allowed Americans to draw their own conclusions-and, in contrast, made vastly rich progressive activists like Tom Steyer and Al Gore seem disingenuous.
https://www.hoover.org/research/camouflaged-elites
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