Hmm well $70,000 is pretty good money to make per year. I resent this guy's attitude that money makes a person who they are. If more people were satisfied with less money the world would be a better place.
Also, this guy seems to say, "don't bother with any social causes or try to improve society, just worry about yourself and your precious money, money, money"
I read an article today that said the most competetive countries in the world are nordic countries that have welfare states. The availability of college, health care, and a feeling of economic justice has led to a general trust in their governments and society.
Unfortunatly, it seems that people can counteract the greed that has led us into debt with further personal greed. Maybe those people walking across the street walked in front of the car as a means of protest against the writer's wealth and intolerance. Either way he condescendingly construed their walking as a symbol of their inferiority to him and his wall-street cronies. But in reality, the situation has a lot to do with wealth, power and family. Some people are born into a caste that allows them to become privileged wallstreet
fatcats, pushing paper in what is essentially an abstraction of the actual work that is being done. Others simply need to work their lives away to protect the profits of those elitists who make risiculously unneccesary amounts of money. That is the nature of capitalism, there will always need to be some level of exploitation to uphold the system.

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"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." - Nietzsche