“I want to build a world where someone like me, a young person who controls tens of millions of dollars, is impossible,” he said.
It reminds me of the reading "Stealing a Bag of Potato Chips" because the boy was trying to resist the system and the criminalization of youth. He was trying to make a change just like mr. Jacob.
plutocratic
"Plutocracy is a term for a government in which wealthy people use their wealth to rule."
Millennials will be the recipients of the largest generational shift of assets in American history — the Great Wealth Transfer, as finance types call it. Tens of trillions of dollars are expected to pass between generations in just the next decade.
This is directly related to our class discussion as we talked about intergenerational wealth and how it decreases the chance of the lower class to move up the social hierarchy.