Part One: Charles Koch: The Luke Skywalker of Rich People
Behind the Bastards
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The Koch Brothers and the Nanny's Iron Rule
The alienating effects of wealth and modernity on the human experience start virtually at birth and never let up. Infants in hunter gatherer societies are carried by their mothers as much as 90% of the time, which roughly corresponds to carrying rates among other primates. In America, during the 1970s, mothers maintain skin to skin contact with babies as little as 16%. So that's what a normal kid in America is getting physical contact with their parents being raised.
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