Must read article on how people thing of equality and its implications
The Psychology of Inequality | The New Yorker
- Her subjects are so concerned about confidentiality that Sherman omits any details that might make them identifiable to those who have visited their brownstones or their summer places.
- If affluence is in the eye of the beholder, then even the super-rich, when they compare their situation with that of the ultra-rich, can feel sorry for themselves.
- Sherman construes things differently. Her subjects, she believes, are reluctant to categorize themselves as affluent because of what the label implies