A look at the 1% from the 1910a and 1920s

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http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=3567

"Dear Hearts ..."

So far this is fairly interesting reading. Perhaps because it is somewhat personal to me. One of the people mentioned is Charlotte Whitney. Her maternal grandmother Martha Louise Pond was a first cousin to one of my great-great grandfathers. They both were also 6th cousins to the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.

The introductory passage says

"Both girls grew into ladies who transcended a class no longer extant. They fostered music and art, promoted social tolerance and catalyzed good talk in a town that must have disheartened less robust natures."

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1. Wealth used to represent Art , Music , Affluence

now it's a neveau riche monster with no sense of community or continuity ,just esoteric cults that don't know what to cherish or what to throw away.

[girl gone mad]

2. Some of the 1% once had a sense of social responsibility and national pride.

Much of that has gone away with the rise of globalization and neoliberalism. Today's elites are all about grabbing as much as they can for themselves while destroying the remaining vestiges of democracy, an act of pulling the ladder up behind them. The only 'social responsibility' they speak of is the responsibility of the little people to prop up the rent-seekers. Note the faux moralizing by 1%-ers with respect to strategic defaults and now with the health insurance mandate (where the language in favor relentlessly decries "freeloaders&quot .

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3. FDR called them ," Those who would pluck the eagle of Democracy to feather their own nest " .