re: #105 sagehen

That’s why I said “mostly”. The Roosevelts were also children of privilege.

I think, to a degree, it’s that new money peopel have an understanding that all their smarts and hard work wouldn’t have brought success without the infrastructure and government actions that provided the playing field they won on and the refs that made the competition fair. People whose daddy and grandpa earned the money think it came entirely from daddy and grandpa’s magic genetic deservedness that’s obviously theirs now.

I think you are vastly over generalizing here. Most people who have earned their wealth themselves tend to think that they have some special quality rather than having been a random generation of the system. Also the very article we are debating starts with the Koch’s having given generously to things like the ballet and musuems……that sounds pretty socially generous to me.