Did you ever see The Admirable Crichton? It’s a classic film from the 1950s. Kenneth More plays a butler, Crichton, who is shipwrecked in the South Seas with the family he serves. Cutting a long story short, it turns out that the family is useless at everything. So by the time they are rescued, he’s ruling the island and they are calling him “the Guv”. And that’s as decent a way as any to understand precisely what it is that gives today’s super, super, super-rich the terrors.
Douglas Rushkoff’s Survival of the Richest starts with a tremendous story. He’s a professor of media theory and digital economics at Queens College, City University of New York. A few years ago he was invited to speak
