Who or what didn’t make the list by a close margin?
There was a theory I wanted to get in about The Winner Take All Society that didn’t make the final cut. The premise is that a small group of people are getting paid outrageous sums of money, to the detriment of society as a whole. This has always been the case in movies, or music, or art: stars get paid outrageous fees, while those in the middle struggle. This has now moved into banking and the corporate world, resulting in gated neighborhoods, struggling school districts, and creating fortunes that can’t be spent in anyone’s lifetime and paving the way for a disengaged aristocracy. In the era of individuals earning $100 million salaries on Wall Street, it’s an interesting and relevant subject that I would have liked to explore. But it wasn’t directly responsible for the meltdown. We also cut an entry on Hedge Funds Investing in Hollywood as a harbinger for what went wrong. Our readers need to know — why are tramp stamps to blame? You have to read it and see. At Vanity Fair, as with ev
