Sure, they are insulated from many everyday financial concerns.
Through private schools, gated communities, personal aircraft and other adaptations, the wealthy have been insulated from many costs of a decaying public sphere.
Isaiah said that he and his brothers had been insulated from many of the aspects of high school that might distract them from their musical goals, like drugs, alcohol and teen romances.
While he and his wife (who had a baby three weeks ago) say that they are dining out less and plan to be more careful in their shopping, he also has the fortune of being insulated from many of the increases.
In fact, one of the benefits of living in the world's sole superpower is being insulated from many of the world's problems.
The development of Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRCs) (e.g., [ 57]) has advanced the annotation pipelines for pathogenic microorganisms, but this system is insulated from many of the investigators who work on the vast majority of organisms represented in the database, and requires consistent deposition in GenBank for there to be a "paper trail" that can be accessed by outside investigators.
In October, when Wall Street was already wallowing in the financial crisis, many in the technology industry still thought they might be insulated from the worst of it.
The jilted investors, naturally, want their cut restored, while many in Congress are anxious to ensure that the government will be insulated from future losses.
You, personally, may be insulated from technological unemployment, but you will not be insulated from its effects across the economy.
