Slouching Toward Olympus

Demigod Wannabes of the New Gilded Age

Illustration: Klawe Rzeczy/The Guardian

I just published a piece in the Guardian called ‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros, about the laughable foibles of today’s gilded age, would-be supervillains. From the piece:

The visions of the feudalist are more self-interested and abstract than even the most egotistical…