Hostility Toward the Richie Riches of the World

There’s an interesting development happening in the comments section of my post on the sexism of “Sex and the City” reviews. At least two commenters have ‘fessed up to feeling hostility towards the rich. I’m not sure if they mean the extremely wealthy or just garden-variety rich, but I’d like to hear more about this.
I just came back from a reunion in New Canaan, Connecticut where I grew up amid considerable affluence, and even I was disgusted by the obscenely huge McMansions that have cropped up where once there stood grand and beautiful colonials. We lived in a nice house when I was a kid and certainly wanted for nothing, but we were not as wealthy as many of my peers. I suppose I noticed it and perhaps even cared about it at one time, but after I left New Canaan and lived in other […]