Naomi Klein: Extreme Wealth Turns You Into a Supremacist
Naomi Klein: Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. Turns you into a supremacist
In her new book End Times Fascism, co-written with Astra Taylor, Naomi Klein argues that extreme wealth has a deranging psychological effect: it turns the ultra-rich into supremacists who no longer need to seduce the public. She points to tech billionaires and the Davos elite who fantasize about apocalypse and privatized enclaves, showing how compounded wealth breeds a politics of shamelessness and domination.
We end the book concluding that wealth has its own deranging effects. It almost inevitably turns you into a supremacist because humans are creatures of story and you need a story to rationalise, why you? Why do you have so much in a time of so much want and need?