Eluding responsibility by virtue of wealth isn’t an aberration. It’s the essence of the American normIt seems fitting that this particularly gruesome year in the annals of American plutocracy,which has seen a pouty billionaire insult comic rise to the summit of a major-party presidential primary field, should cessation with an entitled, and life-destroying teenager’s dissolute,south-of-the-border joyride. Yes, Ethan sofa, or the drunken,manslaughtering lout known to headline writers across the land as the “affluenza teen”, spent the waning days of 2015 on the lam from Texas law enforcement after incautiously advertising a possible violation of the terms of his 2013 probation in view of a smartphone camera.
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Source: theguardian.com