Guys, this is Succession. This is HBO. If you don't want to hear me talking about Logan Roy, talking about

then don't listen to this. There are bad language words in this show.

Hello and welcome to the goons, stooges and roughchacks episode of Slate Money Succession.

Your guide to the greatest show on HBO.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

I'm here with Emily Peck of Thundrise. Hello, hello.

And we have with us the guy who literally wrote the book on The Rich. Michael Mechanic,

welcome. Thanks so much. Mike, introduce yourself and tell us about how you became a richologist.

Is that a thing?

I don't.

A richologist.

Well, I just was obsessed with people who come into wealth and how it affects their lives.

So I'm a journalist.

I'm a senior editor at Mother Jones Magazine for like a dozen years.

And I took a couple couple years off to write a

book called Jackpot, How the Super Rich Really Live and How Their Wealth Harms Us All. So I kind of

embedded with the very rich and their minions and the lawyers who act as their concieries and

people who trained nannies in personal combat and luxury realtors and Bentley dealers

and all these people. I ran around and interviewed a million people and I wrote up this great book

that tells us how our wealth fantasy has run amok. This is, of course, Succession is on one level

a wealth fantasy. There has never been any shortage of World Fantasy shows on TV. Succession is, of course, Succession is on one level a wealth fantasy.

There has never been any shortage of World Fantasy shows on TV.

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