CHAPTER 24
LILLY
His admission makes me feel more special than the Green Berets—and not for the first time.
Still, just in case, I take the smallest stuffed tomato and eat it with as little chewing as possible. Then, mostly to get his attention away from my eating, I ask, “When you said a billion is a much bigger amount of money than a million, I got to wondering… Why do you need so much money in the first place?”
He considers this over a crostini. “I know you think there’s income inequality here in the U.S., and I won’t argue that point, but if you look at the world as a whole, that’s where a much bigger inequality comes into play—and I’ve been wanting to do something about that. Doing something, however, requires wealth in the billions rather than the millions.”
I’m speechless. The
