Monster of 2022: Billionaires

Image credit: Mother Jones / Getty. Article by Michael Mechanic. Mother Jones – December 30, 2022.

When you have that much, some portion is invariably blood money.

Consider the billionaire. Yes, that is a David Foster Wallace reference. I spotted his book of essays, “Consider the Lobster,” yesterday morning in one of those little libraries people of a certain demographic put up in front of their houses. My morning walk takes me up into the Oakland-Berkeley Hills, and past the homes of two billionaires. That’s rare; most billionaires choose to live far from us mere mortals. […]

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