Rich and powerful people in the US, Russia, China and Saudi Arabia are facing trouble. But rich people in developed countries can oppose the government – as Jeff Bezos did with Donald Trump’s administration -- without commercial or personal harm. But, says Ajay Shah, “when the rule of law is lacking, wealth protects the rich when it comes to threats from goons and other rich. But they are not protected from the state.” Thus, he argues, the life strategies of rich people are reshaped by these problems and this is an additional channel of influence shaping the third globalisation, which