“There’s definitely resentment, when they see someone building a $15 million house. But in some ways the people are making a choice, ‘I want to be a ski-bum and work for the ski area [chuckles],’ you know,” explained one ultra-wealthy respondent. Other interviewees spoke in similar terms. An investment banker from New York City told me that the working-class people are “probably jealous as hell that someone’s worked harder than they have and gotten ahead.” This is all very straightforward and simple. “I could see how somebody who is a ski-bum, or somebody who has maybe not spent as much time trying to figure out how to make a lot of money, could have some resentment or could have the perception that all these rich people are, it’s easy money and they didn’t work for it, etc., etc. How that might generate resentment,” says another interviewee.