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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/i-crashed-a-wall-street-secret-society.html
So I accidentally came across this today and although as a super cynical person i always assumed this was how the super rich often, but not always, behaved, it was pretty depressing to see solid evidence. Yet whenever events of this nature come to light, both society in general and people I know in particular never seem to change their behavior much. Maybe some people do the "post an article on facebook; pretend you contributed to society" type "activism". Why is it that most people don't care about this stuff? Maybe they are just already overwhelmed by bullshit?
Bloody hell, why is this and all their responses so heavily downvoted?