We are the 99%, said the outraged who took to the streets a decade ago.
Thus they denounced inequality: the richest 1% of the world population accumulates almost as much wealth as the remaining 99%.
Within that 1% is 0.000038%, which are the 2,668 people who appear on the
Forbes list.
because they amass more than a billion dollars.
Almost all men, almost all white or Asian, a good part of them from the technological sector.
Their fortunes total 12.7 trillion with b dollars, 13% of global GDP.
Says Paul Krugman: "A group of capricious oligarchs have taken over our world."
The satire of the rich —arrogant, narcissistic, frivolous, godlike— has inspired two of the most interesting television productions this year, which coincide in putting them in the middle of crimes.
The most successful is the second season of
The White Lotus
(on HBO Max), which follows a group of wealthy people on vacation at a luxurious hotel in Sicily.
Almost all unhappy, almost all unfaithful to their partners, who swallow to maintain their status;
almost all light years away from ordinary people.
In the same vein is
Daggers in the Back: The Mystery of the Glass Onion
,
Netflix's Christmas premiere.
Rian Johnson's acid film brings detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) to a meeting on a private island in Greece called by a flamboyant tech mogul.
The rich man gathers in his impressive mansion people who owe him favors, even if they hate it, to play at solving a fictitious murder;
there will be a real one that will change everything.
And that he will photograph them.
While in
The White Lotus
the crimes are the least of it, because they capture the daily miseries of that caste, in
Glass Onion
everything revolves around
who has been
, but we also see the most ridiculous face of the superelite.
That she has nothing to fear: the satires on her lifestyle - also those of
Succession
or
Billions
-
they are just another business for them.
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Trailer for the second season of 'The White Lotus'
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