A friend pointed this out to me, from Krugman’s last column in NYT:

‘What strikes me, looking back, is how optimistic many people, both here and in much of the Western world, were back then and the extent to which that optimism has been replaced by anger and resentment. And I’m not just talking about members of the working class who feel betrayed by elites; some of the angriest, most resentful people in America right now — people who seem very likely to have a lot of influence with the incoming Trump administration — are billionaires who don’t feel sufficiently admired.’

Read the column here.

Not only billionaires don’t feel sufficiently admired.

The demand for admiration is enormous.

There is not enough admiration on this world.

What follows is dissatisfaction and resentment.