He told us what we had to do and what sort of men we had to reach. He had quit the Twentieth Century… He stepped to the window and pointed at the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.
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Let’s talk about the rich.
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I don’t know how to process last week’s New Yorker article by Evan Osnos, The Haves and Have-Yachts. 
In my day, the well-to-do were satisfied sharing nautical space with a handful of their social inferiors on the most basic of three-hour tours. Although, it is true, they were just millionaires, and the wife.
Now it’s all about billionaires, their Pomeranians and superyachts. Continue reading