now in the last several decades, we've seen the advent of skyboxes. where the affluent and privilege can watch games in their comforts are removed from the fans in the stands below. and so it's no longer the case that everyone stands in the same line for the restroom and when it rains, not everyone gets wet. this wouldn't matter very much if you only have been in a stolen football stadiums. the something similar would be happening throughout our society. against a background of rising inequality, as more and more aspects of life are governed by market, there are fewer and fewer occasions when men and women from different walks of life encounter one another. we live and work and shop and play in different places. our children are two different schools. you might call it the skype rocks the vacation of life. it's not good for democracy and it's not a satisfying way to the come even most of us who may be privileged enough to watch at least some games from the skyboxes. why? democracy doesn't require perfect equality, but it does require the people from d