When we put the 0.1% on a pedestal, we crowd out teachers, social workers, bus drivers, and farmworkers from the respect that is due to them. We tell them they are less, that they have failed. That any economic disadvantages they face are their fault, their birthright even. That’s not capitalism, that’s a caste system—and the inevitable result of cronyism, which requires these myths to entrench the power of the 0.1%.
