"rw" wrote

.. I
quizzed them about his jet (he had at least three that they knew of --
Gulfstreams), how much they cost (about $60M each), how much they cost to
operate (about $6000/hour), how many crew (3), and so on.

These people don't live in the same world we do. Something has happened to
this country in the past couple of decades. The distribution of wealth has
become dangerously skewed.

There will always be rich and poor, but I'm afraid we're becoming an
hereditary aristocracy.

like everything else, this situation is as it has always been in a
seriously capitalistic society: relative. that is, compared to millions of
folks in this country, your own economic condition, as you stood chatting in
silver creek with those pilots, is just as far fetched to them as that of
the pilot's boss's is to you.
yfitons
wayno(and as mine is to, say, a retired pirate living in the urban
northeast)