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The blue-jeaned billionaires ruining Wyoming
February 27, 2020/
It’s like “Get Out,” but with cowboys, in the mountains.
Why do billionaires love Wrangler jeans?
This is just one of many essential, puzzling and surprisingly heartbreaking questions asked by Yale sociologist Justin Farrell in “Billionaire Wilderness,” a sweeping new study of the ultra-wealthy who’ve moved to — or at least declared residency in — Teton County, Wyo., as well as the largely Latino underclass that serves them.
Nathan Deuel
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Jackson Hole, Wyoming’s first Spanish-language radio station hits the air
“We know the Hispanic community is a large part of Jackson,” Anderson said, “and we just felt like it was in the interest of the public to have a radio station that would serve that market.”
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By allowing the wealthy and powerful to exist almost separately from mundane concerns and implicitly exempt them from laws and rules others must follow, we’re only making them more isolated and less empathetic, and that has profound consequences on global stability and economy. Especially because we’re long past the point when we can keep doing this without harming real people with real problems and real concerns about their future.
(Obviously, and thankfully, there are many exceptional people who have attained great wealth. We’d be lost without their active involvement in making life better for all. Russ)
