Don Dealga

“Schwarzman and his fellow Davos Men were not satisfied with mere wealth. They demanded that society ratify their privilege as morally sound.”
― Peter S. Goodman, Davos Man

“Before 2020 ended Bezos came to personify the rapacious opportunism of the billionaire class who were extracting wealth from a public health emergency, at the expense of employees laboring in proximity to the virus.”
― Peter S. Goodman, Davos Man

“Part of why individuals like Benioff could crow about giving back was because of how comprehensively they had taken to begin with. They had benefited from public goods financed by taxpayers—the schools that educated their employees; the internet, developed by publicly funded research; the roads, the bridges, and the rest of modern infrastructure, which enabled commerce—and then deployed their lobbyists, accountants, and lawyers to master legal forms of tax evasion that starved the system.”
― Peter S. Goodman, Davos Man

“Bandit monks and mafiosi monks were nothing new to the long-suffering inhabitants of rural Sicily.”
― Norman Lewis, Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia observed