Is It Me or Is It Getting Hot in Here?

In this chapter I am going to be writing about rich people. This is tricky, since ‘rich people’ is a very vague term and open to all sorts of abuse and misunderstanding. It is easy, for example, to create false dichotomies or to be guilty of hypocrisy. After all, I had the time to write this book, which means I, too, am rich. If you bought this book new in a bookshop, the chances are fairly good that you are also rich. Even if you stole it by downloading it in PDF format, it’s possible that you are very, very rich. (In 2019, Julius Malema, a man worth millions, had no problem mounting Twitter to ask for a pirated version of Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s .) Which is why, for the sake of clarity, I think a short taxonomy of this species we call ‘the rich’ – – is in order, so that you and I can