Riches & Honor

In a plutocracy, it isn’t just the wealthy but wealth itself that rules. This is both because the wealthy are themselves controlled—perhaps more than anyone else—by their money, and because even in the places where the wealthy do not exert direct control, money does. Money seeps into every crack and breaches every barrier, eventually inundating the structures we thought were secure: intimate relationships, sacred spaces, our deepest hopes and desires.