There’s Nothing More Corrupting Than Flying Private
This thought led Walker to the observation that America was becoming privatized now. The American public had their big conversation out there in the messy democracy, and the elite had its own ongoing intramural chat. He mentioned the proliferation of idea salons in his social universe. He brought up the people who spend tens of thousands of dollars
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Most clubs make the bulk of their profits from smaller and more reliable table bills, the $1,500 to $3,000 sums spent by groups of affluent tourists and businessmen—your run-of-the-mill banker, tech developer, or other upper-class professional with a disposable income. While on the lower end of importance compared to whales and celebrities, they ar
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today we witness billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson in an interplanetary race of their own. They are peddling “the idea that space represents a public hope, all the while reaping big private profits,” notes scholar Alina Utrata. For all the accolades showered upon these men as visionary entrepreneurs, “their celestial utopias s
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
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Kushner and Loeffler: mirror images, elongated, slim-suited, self-seeking dilettantes who entered politics at the highest level because of wealth they never had to earn. Kushner gained admission to Harvard and New York University through his father’s multimillion-dollar donations, married into another fortune, became a slumlord, failed in both news
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