Guys this is succession this is HBO if you don't want to hear me talking about

Logan Roy talking about

shit's then don't listen to this there are bad language words in this show. Hello and welcome to the goons, stooges and rough checks episode of Slate Money Success

your guide to the greatest show on HBO. I'm Felix

Simon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Fundrise.

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 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 just their conciliaries and people who train

nannies in personal combat and luxury realtors and Bentley dealers and all these people.

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