MOLLY JONG-FAST2026年11月11日 Ryan EvansThe weekend before Election Day, I opened up Instagram and saw an image so jarring that I first thought it was A.I.-generated. Martha Stewart had dressed up as a poor person for Halloween. She wore ripped jeans and a weather-beaten flannel, and had what looked like dirt smeared across her face. She held a sign that said “I AM HUNGRY HELP ME!!” and turned her lips down into a mocking frown. The caption directed her audience toward her branded candle collection.选举日前的那个周末，我打开Instagram，看到一张令人震惊的照片，第一反应是这一定是人工智能生成的。玛莎·斯图尔特在万圣节把自己打扮成了一个穷人。她穿着破洞牛仔裤和一件显得十分陈旧的法兰绒衬衫，脸上好像抹了泥。她举着一块牌子，上面写着“我饿了，帮帮我！！”，嘴角故意向下撇，做出嘲弄的苦相。配文则引导粉丝去购买她自己品牌的蜡烛系列。Ms. Stewart’s Halloween costume is the sort of thing we’ve been seeing from rich people since President Trump’s second election. Many regular voters went for Mr. Trump in 2024 because of the high cost of groceries. But rich people felt empowered by his second victory, as if the public elected them, too.自特朗普总统第二次当选以来，我们经常看到富人做出斯图尔特这种事。2024年，许多普通选民因为食品价格高企而把票投给特朗普。但他的再次胜选却让富人觉得自己也获得了某种授权，仿佛选民把他们也选上了台。And so it’s been two years of rich people going full Roman emperor — unleashed, unapologetic and, often, punching down.于是，过去两年里，富人们越来越像罗马皇帝，肆无忌惮、毫无歉意，而且常常恃强凌弱。For much of my life, I’ve spent a lot of time with wealthy people in places like New York City and Los Angeles. My family, literary types, were not Wall Street banker rich or industrialist rich, like some of my friends and neighbors. I miss that brand of rich person. They had some vague WASP-y reticence about showing off. Some of them drove old Volvos. Few of them flew first class, let alone private. Besides, the New York of the 1980s was a place where showoffs tended to get mugged. If someone was mind-bendingly wealthy, that person didn’t necessarily want you to know it.我人生中的大部分时间都经常在纽约和洛杉矶等地与富人打交道。我的家人都是文学圈人士，不像我的一些朋友和邻居那样，是华尔街银行家或实业家级别的富豪。我怀念从前那种富人。他们多少还保留着一点盎格鲁-撒克逊白人新教徒式的低调，不愿炫耀财富。有些人开着旧沃尔沃。很少有人坐头等舱，更不用说私人飞机了。况且，1980年代的纽约是个爱炫富的人容易遭抢劫的地方。即使一个人富得令人难以想象，也未必愿意让别人知道。Today’s rich people are richer than ever, and that seems to have made them worse than ever. More shameless. More out of touch. Less empathetic. Thinner-skinned. And, for some mysterious reason, angrier. They’re people who consider equality for others oppression for themselves.如今的富人比以往任何时候都更富有，而这似乎也让他们变得比以往任何时候都更糟糕。他们更加无耻，更加脱离现实，更缺乏同理心，更受不得批评。而且，不知为什么，他们还更加愤怒。在这些人看来，别人获得平等，就意味着自己受到了压迫。Sometimes they’re nouveau riche ridiculous — Jeff Bezos throwing a foam party on his half-billion-dollar yacht and then occupying Venice for his star-studded wedding. Or they’re destabilizing — Elon Musk dancing with a chain saw and hacking away at the federal government, a move that threw hundreds of thousands of people out of the federal work force and cost taxpayers an estimated $135 billion last year. Too often, they’ve been flashing their wealth before our eyes. Mr. Trump’s billionaire buddies kissed up and paid up — pass the hat for the inauguration, boys! — and ended up with tax benefits. (See: “bonus depreciation,” which allows executives to write off depreciating assets and has led to a buying spree in both private planes and racehorses.)有时，他们像暴发户一样荒唐可笑——杰夫·贝索斯在价值5亿美元的游艇上举办泡沫派对，又为了那场众星云集的婚礼，把威尼斯变成了自己的私人会场。有时，他们则会造成严重破坏——埃隆·马斯克挥舞着电锯跳舞，对联邦政府大砍大削，让数十万人丢了联邦政府的饭碗，据估计去年还让纳税人付出了1350亿美元的代价。他们也太频繁地在我们眼前炫耀财富。特朗普的亿万富豪朋友们一边阿谀奉承，一边慷慨解囊——来吧，哥儿几个，为就职典礼凑钱！——最终换来了税收优惠。（比如“额外折旧扣除”，允许企业高管对会贬值的资产进行税务抵扣，并引发了私人飞机和赛马的购买热潮。）It’s well documented that extreme wealth melts one’s brain. As Helen Riess and Liz Neporent write in “The Empathy Effect”: “Scientific studies have shown there is an inverse relationship between power and empathy. This distance often insulates the rich and powerful from the suffering of the everyday person.” The richer you are, the more insular your life becomes, and the more out of touch you become. Money becomes a way of measuring yourself against other rich people. It’s not about worrying about your rent, filling up your gas tank or affording ground beef at the grocery store. Get rich enough, and your doctor probably doesn’t even take health insurance — and you don’t need him to.大量研究已经证明，巨额财富会把人的脑子烧坏。海伦·里斯和莉兹·内波伦特在《同理心效应》一书中写道：“科学研究表明，权力与同理心之间存在反比关系。这种距离往往使富人和权贵与普通人的苦难隔绝开来。”一个人越富有，生活圈子就越封闭，也就越脱离现实。金钱成了他们与其他富人比较的标尺。他们不必为房租、汽车加油或在超市买不买得起碎牛肉而发愁。只要足够有钱，你的医生很可能连医疗保险都不接受——而你也根本不需要他接受。The wealthiest Americans’ X feeds must be puzzlingly filled with self-pity or the belief that somehow they are the ones being discriminated against in the world. Sergey Brin personally spent $100 million to help defeat the California wealth tax. And never mind all the squawking among the 17,000 New Yorkers who were asked by the Mamdani administration to prove that their $5-million-plus homes were not pieds-à-terre, and therefore subject to an extra tax.美国最富有的那些人，X上的信息流里想必充斥着令人费解的自怜情绪，以及自己不知怎么成了受歧视者的论调。谢尔盖·布林个人花费了1亿美元，出资助力否决加州财富税。还有纽约那1.7万名富人的抱怨也不必说了。马姆达尼政府要求他们证明自己价值超过500万美元的住房不是偶尔落脚的第二居所，否则就要缴纳额外税款，他们为此叫苦连天。Once upon a time, the wealthiest Americans knew they had it good and that they owed something to the rest of us. They followed in the spirit of Andrew Carnegie’s “The Gospel of Wealth,” in which he argued that the rich have a moral duty to help better the world, for everyone. They funded libraries, museums, medical research, disease eradication projects and even entire universities. Maybe this was out of moral or even religious conviction. Maybe it was out of a desire to see their names on buildings. Or maybe it was out of fear, after decades of strikes and social movements and, in other countries, revolutions.曾几何时，美国最富有的人知道自己生活优渥，也明白自己对社会其他成员负有某种责任。他们奉行安德鲁·卡内基在《财富福音》中倡导的精神：富人有道德义务帮助建设一个对所有人都更美好的世界。他们出资兴建图书馆、博物馆，资助医学研究、疾病根除项目，甚至创办整所大学。也许他们这样做出于道德或宗教信念，也许只是想让自己的名字出现在建筑物上。又或许，在经历了数十年的罢工和社会运动，以及其他国家爆发的革命之后，他们心存恐惧。Those lessons have been mostly forgotten. The wealthiest Americans don’t seem to care that much about giving back. When billionaires do give, it’s often to causes that appear to come with perks, like Mr. Trump’s inaugural fund or his ridiculous ballroom.这些教训如今大多被遗忘了。美国最富有的人似乎不再那么关心回馈社会。即使亿万富豪愿意捐款，也往往是捐给那些看起来能为自己带来好处的项目，比如特朗普的就职基金，或者他那座荒唐的宴会厅。It looks as if, finally, regular Americans have had enough. On the whole, voters rebuked Mr. Trump’s by-billionaires-for-billionaires government in stunning fashion in last week’s midterms. They won’t be bought or bribed away from reality, and they’ll turn out in droves before they’ll let Elon Musk buy their elections. When the president tried to dangle a $5,000 check in front of voters, they just said no.如今看来，普通美国人终于受够了。总体而言，在上周的中期选举中，选民以惊人的方式教训了特朗普那个由亿万富翁组成、为亿万富翁服务的政府。他们不会被金钱收买，也不会被利益诱惑而无视现实。他们宁愿大批走进投票站，也不愿让埃隆·马斯克凭借财力左右选举。当总统试图用一张5000美元的支票诱惑选民时，他们干脆地说了不。Affordability became a midterm buzzword because it’s a real crisis. During Mr. Trump’s second term, prices for staples like gas, diesel, beef and coffee have skyrocketed. Medicare and Obamacare cuts are throwing millions off health insurance. The One Big Beautiful Bill stripped millions of people of the SNAP benefits they need to feed their families. While Mr. Trump obsesses about a plethora of construction projects including a ballroom, normal people are poorer and angrier than they were when they elected him.生活负担成为中期选举的热门词汇，是因为这确实是一场危机。特朗普第二任期内，汽油、柴油、牛肉和咖啡等生活必需品价格飞涨。联邦医疗保险和奥巴马医改项目遭到削减，导致数百万人失去医疗保险。《大而美法案》使数百万人失去了养家糊口所依赖的补充营养援助计划(SNAP）福利。特朗普却沉迷于包括宴会厅在内的一大堆建筑工程。普通人的生活比当初选他上台时更加拮据，也更加愤怒。Cue Martha Stewart: “I AM HUNGRY HELP ME!!”这时轮到玛莎·斯图尔特登场了：“我饿了，帮帮我！！”What was she expecting people to do, write “yaaaas Hobo Queen!” in the comments?她难道指望人们在评论区写下“哇哦，流浪女王万岁！”吗？Ms. Stewart quickly took down her Instagram post and, after public outcry, apologized, multiple times. Then she started blaming someone else for her Halloween misstep. She said the “Today” show anchor Craig Melvin spilled chocolate on her sweater and that she dressed up that way because she had only 10 minutes to get ready. Shockingly, nobody’s really buying that excuse.斯图尔特很快删除了那条Instagram帖文，并在公众强烈抗议后多次道歉。随后，她又开始把万圣节装扮失当的责任推给别人。她说，《今日》节目主持人克雷格·梅尔文把巧克力弄到了她的毛衣上，而她只有10分钟时间换装，所以才打扮成那个样子。不出所料，几乎没人相信这个借口。Much like Mr. Trump and his billionaire buddies, she may have squandered her gilded age.和特朗普及他的亿万富豪朋友们一样，她或许也已经挥霍掉了属于自己的镀金时代。最受欢迎接近黄仁勋的女间谍由中国国安部招募为什么泰国医生“害怕”肯德基中国前10个月贸易顺差突破1万亿美元黄仁勋承认出轨，英伟达调查其与疑似中国间谍的关系美、中、俄三国首脑在深圳会晤？习近平的雄心与顾虑北京否认与黄仁勋有亲密关系的女性为中国间谍英伟达先进芯片流向中国“空壳”公司黄仁勋对特朗普称自己不知婚外情对象疑似中国间谍美国商务部就芯片展开的调查在英伟达介入后中止黄仁勋对英伟达的全面控制是否意味着他难以被惩罚国际中国商业与经济镜头科技科学健康教育文化风尚旅游房地产观点与评论国际亚太南亚美国美洲欧洲中东非洲中国时政经济社会中外关系港澳台商业与经济全球经济中国经济交易录文化阅读艺术电影与电视体育风尚时尚美食与美酒生活方式观点与评论专栏作者观点漫画更多镜头科技科技公司科技与你科学健康教育旅游房地产免费下载 纽约时报中文网iOS 和 Android App点击下载iOS App 点击下载Android App© 2026 The New York Times Company.