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The Super-Rich are Different from You and Me
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- Paul Krugman Podcast
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- May 7, 2026
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Transcript The super rich are different from you and me. They are pettier and more self-centered than most of us can easily imagine. Hi, Paul Krugman here. This video is partly me trying to show that yes indeed I am on vacation, sort of, although on my laptop too much of the time. But anyway, I’m at least working on the laptop sitting in cafes. But I also wanted to do a follow-up on a post earlier this week in which I talked about Jeff Bezos feeling now that he needs to sell his ostentatious, bad taste yacht because people are paying attention to the ostentatiousness and the bad taste — which is, kind of, what did he expect. But it is news that rich people are feeling some of the heat, that some of the backlash is starting to get to them. Today I want to talk about a story that’s a couple of days old but is more along the same lines and has some other resonance I think is worth talking about. So, Ken Griffin is a hedge fund billionaire. was a big Trump supporter, although not a reliable one, and he happens to be the owner of the most expensive apartment ever purchased in America, at least as far as we know, a $200-something million place on Central Park South. Zoran Mandani, New York’s very interesting mayor, has called for a pied-à-terre tax, a tax on luxury residences exceeding $5 million that are owned by people who are not residents of New York, who are therefore not paying New York City income taxes. It’s a wealth tax, but a limited one. It would definitely raise some money, but of course has got people irked. And he put out a video which featured a shot of the building in which Ken Griffin has his apartment. Griffin went wild. He said this is a personal attack on me, it’s putting me at risk. He even compared himself to Donald Trump facing assassination attempts a…