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...toddlers. At the same time, they are worried that their kids take wealth for granted, and struggle to prepare their teens for a less lavish life once they get out on their own. Inevitably, some Wall Street investment advisers are now recommending shrinks to help children of the super-rich work through their money issues...
...support the subtitle's alarmist indictment of "the medical establishment." Yet the need to buck up Stewart's new book with a sensational subtitle is understandable. In his 1991 best seller, Den of Thieves, the author had the advantage of writing about financiers Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, two super-rich felons rarely out of the limelight. Swango resists efforts to come alive on the page. He is a shadowy figure, an evasive loner with bizarre obsessions and an abundance of low animal cunning...
...These new super-rich won't loosen up their wads because they're afraid they'll reduce their net worth and go down on the list," he told Dowd. "That's their Super Bowl...
There is in fact enough wealth in American bank accounts to go around between social service organizations, environmental initiatives and well-funded universities-if only the super-rich would agree to be a bit more super, and bit less rich...
Until then, let the poor suffer, the uneducated remain ignorant, the hungry starve and the forests wither. They say in political philosophy that justice delayed is justice denied. Gates, Buffett and their fellow super-rich should be ashamed of themselves. Generosity delayed is generosity denied...