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Are political and corporate leaders even remotely aware of the conditions of society beneath the wealthiest 10% or so?

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As they accumulate more and more wealth, the very rich have less need for society. At the same time, they’ve convinced themselves that they made it on their own, and that contributing to societal needs is unfair to them.

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Their entitlements can be summarized into four categories, each of which reveals clear advantages that the very rich take for granted.

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Even so, as a child, my mother urged me to pick up the racket. For God’s sake, it’s one of the businessman’s sports. Indeed, to my mother, the tennis court was just another hoop to jump through on my way to a corner office at Goldman Sachs. Of course — just like my reign at Flushing Meadows—that indulgence never happened.