Iceberg to the Right: From the Titanic to Paul Ryan
by George Packer
When the Titanic set sail on her first and only voyage a hundred years ago today, the thirteen hundred passengers were separated into first, second, and third class; they included the cream of Anglo-American aristocracy—Astors, Guggenheims, Duff-Gordons—as well hundreds of immigrants in steerage. This division proved decisive when things went wrong four nights later.
In one sense, things are more equal today: if a jet plane goes down over the North Atlantic, everyone on board goes with it. In other ways, we’ve moved a long distance back to the age of luxury ocean liners.
So you can add air travel to incomes, tax rates, education, social mobility, health statistics, and all the other ways in which we tolerate levels of inequality that have been unheard of since the days of the Titanic.
full article here
When the Titanic set sail on her first and only voyage a hundred years ago today, the thirteen hundred passengers were separated into first, second, and third class; they included the cream of Anglo-American aristocracy—Astors, Guggenheims, Duff-Gordons—as well hundreds of immigrants in steerage. This division proved decisive when things went wrong four nights later.
In one sense, things are more equal today: if a jet plane goes down over the North Atlantic, everyone on board goes with it. In other ways, we’ve moved a long distance back to the age of luxury ocean liners.
So you can add air travel to incomes, tax rates, education, social mobility, health statistics, and all the other ways in which we tolerate levels of inequality that have been unheard of since the days of the Titanic.
full article here
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