"But it also highlights just how stupid this kind of callousness can make you. Says Cowen, "the wealthy enjoy all sorts of other goods -- most importantly status -- which lengthen their lives and which the poor enjoy to a much lesser degree." Most importantly status?" - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"Let that roll around in your brain for a little while. Let it seep in. The most important good that the rich enjoy over the poor, in Tyler Cowen's world, is status. What an ugly, privileged, ignorant, myopic, empirically invalid thing to say. He might as well have said "I am wealthy and have lost all ability to make discriminating observations about social class."" - Andrew C (✓)