Embrace Your Peasant Destiny, Peasant

As Oxfam announces that the sixty-two richest people now have as much wealth as the three-and-a-half billion poorest, on the eve of Davos, the Times points to a survey of forty thousand people in twenty countries who are in the top five percent of income earners:

The survey also revealed that the rich who were considered more social-minded tended to work for smaller companies and were more optimistic. By contrast, the self-oriented have “a more fatalistic attitude, often believing in the existence of a particular destiny for every individual, which one cannot deny or escape.”

They’re… not all that wrong? At least you have an iPhone and Peach.