
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (Chrystia Freeland)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Getting Rich From Crony Capitalism
Many plutocrats, less high profile, for good reason, got rich from crony capitalism of various types. If facebook, twitter and snapchat disappeared, the world would probably be better off. It is a variation on the known phenomenon that the working class resents those rich who are perceived to have earned their wealth much less than the parasitical rich.
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