Progressive Politics

Staley is openly asserting here what many on the Left have long feared: that workers in rich societies are too bought off to overthrow capitalism. But among many other revelations in Epstein’s emails is the glaring fact that the ruling elite are not as uniquely bright as they’d like us to think. For all their wealth and power, these are no Übermenschen — they’re just average men with lurid sexual impulses and atrocious spelling. Their money and influence do not testify to their exquisitely developed personalities or intellects, only to the arbitrary injustice of the system that elevates them.

In other words, just because the former CEO of Barclays thinks American workers are too lulled by consumerism to come for his crown someday doesn’t mean it’s true.