Revulsion Against Billionaires Isn't About 'Envy.'

Last week, various media outlets reported the horrifying news that the Dutch city of Rotterdam was planning to temporarily dismantle its historic Koningshaven Bridge to allow the superyacht owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to pass through. Even for those outside the Netherlands unfamiliar with the bridge or its significance as a national monument there, the news carried an unavoidable symbolism: a historic piece of public infrastructure set to be maimed to make way for a gaudy billionaire pleasure vehicle owned by the world’s second richest man — a development, no less, owed to the boat’s sheer physical size relative to the bridge. The political cartoons practically draw themselves. Read Full Article »