The Reign of the One Percenters: Income inequality and the death of culture in New York City

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from Orion:


The Reign of the One Percenters
Income inequality and the death of culture in New York City

by Christopher Ketcham


For my daughter’s benefit, so that she might know the enemy better, know what he looks like, where he nests, and when and where to throw eggs at his head, we start the tour at Wall Street. It’s hot. August. We’re sweating like old cheese.

Here are the monuments that matter, I tell her: the offices of Deutsche Bank and Bank of New York Mellon; the JPMorgan Chase tower up the block; around the corner, the AIG building. The structures dwarf us, imposing themselves skyward.

“Linked together like rat warrens, with air conditioning,” I tell her. “These are dangerous creatures, Léa. Sociopaths.”

She doesn’t know what sociopath means. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6470

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