I don’t even think the scale is new. There’s plenty of examples through history of aristocracy drowning in wealth while most people were scratching the hard ground. It’s even said that Mansa Musa was so wealthy and generous that his presence in foreign lands upset entire economies.
People have been abusing each other since before they were people, too; that doesn’t mean we just let them keep doing it.
Oh sure, I just get the sense that there are a lot of people who think this state of affairs is something new.
The concept is old, the scale is new
I don’t even think the scale is new. There’s plenty of examples through history of aristocracy drowning in wealth while most people were scratching the hard ground. It’s even said that Mansa Musa was so wealthy and generous that his presence in foreign lands upset entire economies.