{"id":15041,"date":"2013-11-04T16:10:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T21:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15041"},"modified":"2013-11-04T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T21:11:03","slug":"gauis-publius-the-rich-a-class-of-people-for-whom-humans-are-disposable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/11\/04\/gauis-publius-the-rich-a-class-of-people-for-whom-humans-are-disposable\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauis Publius: The Rich \u2013 &#8220;A Class of People for Whom Humans are Disposable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> blog has the article <a title=\"Naked Capitalism article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2013\/11\/gauis-publius-the-rich-a-class-of-people-for-whom-humans-are-disposable.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gauis Publius: The Rich \u2013 &#8220;A Class of People for Whom Humans are Disposable&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><strong> \u00a0<\/strong>Quoting from Chris Hedges, the article explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The rich are different. <\/strong>The cocoon of wealth and privilege permits the rich to <strong>turn those around them into compliant workers, hangers-on, servants, flatterers and sycophants<\/strong>. Wealth breeds, as Fitzgerald illustrated in \u201cThe Great Gatsby\u201d and his short story \u201cThe Rich Boy,\u201d <strong>a class of people for whom human beings are disposable commodities<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>I found out about the <a title=\"Naked Capitalism blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Naked Capitalism<\/strong><\/a> blog from my previous post, <a title=\"Previous Post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/11\/04\/bill-moyers-the-corporate-plot-that-obama-and-corporate-lobbyists-dont-want-you-to-know-about\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bill Moyers: The Corporate Plot That Obama and Corporate Lobbyists Don\u2019t Want You to Know About<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 That article mentions that the interviewee Yves Smith writes this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Naked Capitalism blog has the article Gauis Publius: The Rich \u2013 &#8220;A Class of People for Whom Humans are Disposable&#8221;. \u00a0Quoting from Chris Hedges, the article explains: The rich are different. The cocoon of wealth and privilege permits the rich to turn those around them into compliant workers, hangers-on, servants, flatterers and sycophants. Wealth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15044,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15041\/revisions\/15044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}