PLUTOCRATIC EXCESS

“Yet the social crises that cities face are remarkably consistent, country to country and town to town. Very little that is going on in New York, from plutocratic excess to outlying gentrification, is not also going on, with different emphases and origins, in London: the same tales of people who drink wine and lattes buying the property of those who drink whiskey and beer.”

Adam Gopnik, “Naked Cities, the Death and Life of Urban America,” in the New Yorker, October 5, 2015, pp. 80-85