This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantu.
When the New York Times showed that Donald Trump may have used a legal loophole to avoid paying federal income taxes for years, many people expected the self described billionaire to be embarrassed.
Instead, in a debate with Hillary Clinton.
Donald Trump said he didn't pay any federal income tax.
So that makes me smart.
He paid zero.
That makes me smart.
It got us thinking about a new book by Brooke Harrington.
A sociologist at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.
She decided several years ago to explore the secret lives of billionaires.
She took an unusual path to enter this world.
She herself trained to become a wealth manager.
In the course of this training, she gained unprecedented access to other wealth managers who agreed to be interviewed for her research.
She discovered that in order to manage money for the super rich, these professionals also learn a lot about the private lives of their clients.
What they shared, Brooks says, shocked her.
The lives of the richest people in the world are so different from those of the rest of us.
It's almost literally unimaginable.
National borders are nothing to them.
They might as well not exist.