A new light on Tom Friedman

Regular readers of this blog (assuming there are any) know that I am no fan of NY Times columnist Tom Friedman, who spends about half his time arguing the merits of free trade and the other half pontificating about the Middle East from what I consider to be a mindlessly knee-jerk pro-Israeli perspective that distorts almost everything he has to say.

Today, I learned one more thing about him that may help to explain why he is so unwilling to look beyond the supposed benefits of free trade to the problems with opening our doors to goods produced with essentially slave labor. He is among the wealthiest 100 families in the entire country according to this article. Now, I have nothing against wealth, per se, but you do wonder whether his wealth may have led him to underestimate the problems of American labor having to compete with the slaves in China.