CLASS NOTES (L40): THE STORIES WE TELL ABOUT WEALTH

Questions about money, power, and the stories we tell about who deserves support.

Yesterday’s lesson focused on Elon Musk becoming worth approximately $1.1 trillion.

The easy joke is Mars. Rockets. Ketamine Columbus.

But the thing I keep thinking about is bigger than Musk. It is the story we tell about wealth.

I am not writing this as a tax expert.

I am writing this as an artist interested in the stories a culture tells about power.

And one of the stories we tell most often is that extreme wealth is proof of genius. That the man who accumulates the most must have earned the most. That public support is dependency when ordinary people receive it, but innovation when corporations do.

Class Notes are not where I pretend to have every answer. They are where I write down the questions I cannot stop asking...

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