Cartoon: Let Us Now Praise Resentful Men

Several publications have diagnosed a growing socioeconomic ill:  The desperate plight of lawyers, bankers, management consultants and other members of the "merely rich" who are forced to keep up with the new "superrich"--hedge-fund managers, CEOs, YouTube founders and the like.* The gap between a seven-figure income and a nine-figure income is certainly a glaring one, yet society forces such families to share gated communities, country clubs and private-school auctions. What does it profit a man to have a showy house if his neighbor has an even showier one? In a kingdom of billionaires, can a millionaire still land a passable trophy...

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