Mastodawn

Ah, a groundbreaking revelation: rich people want to stay rich! 😱📉 No one saw that one coming, certainly not Lampedusa’s century-old #critique. 🎩✨ Next up, water is wet. 💧🚿
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250304-the-leopard-the-1958-italian-novel-that-skewered-the-super-rich #richpeopleproblems #Lampedusa #economicinequality #groundbreakingrevelation #socialcommentary #HackerNews #ngated

'It tells us something about how elites seek to retain their power': How Lampedusa's The Leopard skewered the super-rich

Lampedusa's mid-20th-Century novel The Leopard became a bestseller, then a revered film – and is now a lavish Netflix series - why does it remain relevant today?

BBC