[lbo-talk] Thought for the day, from C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite

Charles Brown cb31450 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 5 19:54:43 PST 2014


This is plagerized from Doug on facebook. He might have to put me on moderation.

Charles

Thought for the day, from C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite:

"The idea that the millionaire finds nothing but a sad, empty place at the top of this society; the idea that the rich do not know what to do with their money; the idea that the successful become filled up with futility, and that those born successful are poor and little as well as rich - the idea, in short, of the disconsolateness of the rich - is, in the main, merely a way by which those who are not rich reconcile themselves to the fact. Wealth in America is directly gratifying and directly leads to many further gratifications. To be truly rich is to possess the means of realizing in big ways one's little whims and fantasies and sicknesses...."



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