One way to deal with luck or good fortune is to believe you're entitled to it. When Trump was spared, Governor Tim Scott saw it as a sign from God. It's actually the grace Max Weber refers to in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. This may account for the reason most rich people are schmucks. They're guilty about the unfairness of a situation they at the same time don't want to gjve up. This may account for the shit eating grin that appears on the faces of despoilers. Individual initiative is nice and socialists like Fourier have proposed an economics that allows for freedom while mitigating the economic inequality described by Thomas Piketty in Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Is allowing a small group of billionaires to account for the major part of the country's wealth really freedom? Of course no system of governance is immune. Lenin was no less of a schmuck than Vanderbilt or Rockefeller. Members of the Nomenklatura left Moscow on the weekends for their dachas. Daumier painted caricatures of what Tom Wolfe would later called "Masters of the Universe" in The Bonfire if the Vanities. .
read "Frankel" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn
and listen to "Land of a Thousand Dances" by Wilson Pickett
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