Extreme Inequalities in Contemporary Capitalism

This book asks the question whether one should worry about the rich. No one, or at least very few, would question the fact that we should worry about the poor (or, better, for the poor). Conversely, the mere suggestion one should worry about the rich could raise suspicious eyebrows, as it were an indication of some form of prejudice against them, a new manifestation of that most vile of sentiments, envy, which Hannah Arendt pointedly termed “the worst of humanity’s vices”.