The concept was proven. Billionaires’ Row was born, grew, thrived. The financiers and profiteers and plutocrats and kleptocrats gobbled up condos for twenty, fifty, a hundred million dollars, then barely moved in. These apartments were more like vaults than residences. One sold for two hundred and twenty million dollars, a figure equivalent to spending nearly a thousand dollars per day, every day, for six hundred years. A scale that proved just how much was wrong with the world.
