During game three of the NBA Finals Wednesday, Toronto’s Kyle Lowry leapt out of bounds chasing after a loose ball. A fan shoved Lowry and repeatedly told him to “go fuck [himself].” That “fan” was Mark Stevens, a billionaire tech capitalist and minority owner of the Warriors.

It’s hard to imagine a clearer example of the hubris of our elite, and why even millionaire athletes are treated like shit by their employers.

Of course, the incident took place in the context of the championship series of a professional sport, with all the piles of cash and millions of eyeballs such series entail. But fundamentally, this was an incident of an owner assaulting a worker on the shop floor. The league’s predictably weak response and slap-on-the-wrist punishment for Stevens remind us that for all the NBA’s posturing about progressivism, the workplace that is the professional basketball court remains sleekly packaged but deeply unequal.