The Rise of the Elites in America

The Russian Revolution gave the tycoons the Gilded Age. If they don't have that sort of scare, how are they going to start acting and get to their own obvious interests? Well, my possibility you have to face, I hope that it's not very high, is that you eventually have some kind of revolution in the U.S. That would shut their wealth bump down. So there's going to be substantial self-sacrifice involved in it. But so my hope is that it will be the prosocial segment of the elites who will understand the problem well enough and persuade the rest of them"