The oft-quoted (and frequently misquoted) lines by F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me,”1 provide context for an important thought-provoking article by Professor Allison Anna Tait, “The Law of High-Wealth Exceptionalism.” Just as the quotation is often followed by Ernest Hemingway’s purported (but not confirmed) reply, “Yes, they have more money,” this article attempts to draw some simple conclusions about a very complex—and extremely important—topic. Prof. Tait takes on an issue that should be top of everyone’s mind: the rising inequality and concurrent separation of the world’s richest families (the 1% in common parlance, or more accurately the .001 percent) from the rest of soc...
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