Instead the burgeoning middle class will become wealthier and feel more secure about the future and will thus be more independent-minded.
The increasingly tech-centric world will become wealthier, and higher-priced gasoline will be accommodated because it permits so much of what people cherish both in the developed and in the developing world: comfort, convenience and quality of life.
Here's the deal, if you believe this you will never become wealthy yourself.
And, the challenges of those who will be old before they become wealthy will be different from those who are developed and old already.
It's probable that at least some of the current crop of regular backers will become truly wealthy.
Also missing from the filing are the names and shares held by Twitter employees, potentially in the hundreds, who will become significantly wealthy when the company goes public.
This system is sustainable because a few members of each class will become phenomenally wealthy and, out of some sense of obligation, will return a share of their fortune to the university.Now as Matt Yglesias notes, a gift to Harvard is an odd way to spend one's money.
Many years, no doubt, in which several future BP chief executives will become seriously wealthy by managing to beat thousands of equally qualified candidates to find themselves at the top of a massive company, only to then wield insignificant impact on its performance.
If the old illusion was that Greece was a wealthy country, the new illusion is that Greece will, in short order, become wealthy enough to pay back ever-growing sums of debt.
One of these days, perhaps by the time Kevin Rose does indeed become wealthy, someone will write a richly textured book that chronicles with insight and acumen the rise of the most recent crop of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
