IIRC working in publishing (not as a little drone, mind you, but as someone in a position of at least some small power) is among the professions Fussell calls o

IIRC working in publishing (not as a little drone, mind you, but as someone in a position of at least some small power) is among the professions Fussell calls out in Class for optionally-working members of his Upper Middle or for Upper folks who haven’t begun to let go of work being tied up in personal value so they can begin to ascend to the Top-Out-of-Sight. So yes, an enclave of social privilege.