Interesting article. I'm basically a socialist and see everything through a Marxist lens, but it seems like everyone loses-- rich and poor-- when money is such a dominating factor in peoples' lives. Living in a stratified, money-centered society sucks no matter who or where you are.

What we should do is make society more like college, where people have a lot of choice in what they work on, and where successful people help the less successful people but one's level of success isn't seen as an important thing about oneself. I was "successful" in college (3.9 math major) and it wouldn't have been weird or awkward to sit at the same table as someone with a 2.7. I didn't even know what my friends' GPAs were, and I didn't care when I did know. Yet we live in a world where most people don't even have a single friend outside of their social class.