Lavish wealth tolerated more for individuals than groups
Picture one of America’s wealthiest people – say, Warren Buffet, Sergey Brin or Larry Ellison – and you’re more likely to regard their enormous riches
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Picture one of America’s wealthiest people – say, Warren Buffet, Sergey Brin or Larry Ellison – and you’re more likely to regard their enormous riches
Our perceptions of billionaires can vary greatly, when viewed as a group or as individuals.
On the eve of his planned marathon on Saturday, teenaged cancer survivor Jesse Walker was feeling that same kind of nervousness he felt in 2018 before he had a…
On the eve of his planned marathon on Saturday, teenaged cancer survivor Jesse Walker was feeling that same kind of nervousness he felt in 2018 before he had a…
Continuing Ed — with Edward Snowden I. The greatest conspiracies are open and notorious — not theories, but practices expressed through law and policy, technology, and finance. Counterintuitively, these conspiracies are more often than not announced in public and with a modicum of pride. They’re dutifully reported in our newspapers; they’re bannered onto the covers of our magazines; updates on their progress are scrolled across our screens — all with such regularity as to render us unable to relate the banality of their methods to the rapacity of their ambitions. The party in p...