The price of privilege
by digby
I think this piece by Paul Campos gets to the heart of the matter:
The real affluenza is the failure of the rich to appreciate that their special privileges – such as the privilege of operating under what is, from a practical perspective, a substantially different justice system than everyone else – must come at a price.
That price is paid in the form of the growing contempt of their fellow citizens, a contempt that grows in proportion to the ever-increasing gap in America between the children of privilege and everyone else.
They don’t just want to be rich and powerful. They want to be loved. But you know what they say about that:
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