Trigger warning: I reference Paul Ryan in this review. I have thoughts about this book. In Dream Hoarders, Richard Reeves comes for me and a whole bunch of my friends. Reeves points out that while some of the exasperation and ire directed at the 1% is justified, it is perhaps too narrowly focused. He sees that the entire top 20%–households with annual incomes of $112,000–is pulling away from the rest of the country. The top fifth of U.S. households saw a $4 trillion increase in […]
Honestly, by the end of the trilogy, I just felt sick.
I really liked Crazy Rich Asians. I’ll still see the movie. I have high hopes. It was a mostly fun look at the immense level of wealth in Singapore, and how these uber-wealthy families live their lives out in the world. And I had some trouble with the second book, China Rich Girlfriend. All the details that had been amusingly shocking in the first book were now just shocking and a bit disgusting. The sheer waste of money on things like clothes and jewelry and […]