FOR DECADES, the ultra-wealthy have confidently commanded that we believe in the comforting (for them) fairytale of meritocracy — the notion that a billionaire is simply someone who worked a million times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a cleaner.
Yet, if you spend even a casual afternoon reviewing the architectural, media and psychological footprints of the actions of the global “elite” over the past 40 years, a profoundly different narrative emerges.
They are not the self-assured and serene masters of human destiny that they pretend to be. They are terrified.
