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>There's a tendency to label whoever you have beef with. Investors, bankers, the wealthy, political elites, the upper class... Are these supposed to be differe
by learnstats2 6y ago
>There's a tendency to label whoever you have beef with. Investors, bankers, the wealthy, political elites, the upper class...
Are these supposed to be different groups of people?
- dalbasal 6y agoThey're pretty tightly clustered, but each have their own connotations, rhetorically. Remember that the original liberals and republicans were (arguably) conducting conflicts within this overall cluster. In France it was the sans culotte vs the old nobility and clerics. You could argue that zuck or murdoch represents either side.
- meekrohprocess 6y agoI don't think the sans culotte were part of the wealthy classes...doesn't it translate to something like, "without fancy pants"? I could see an argument that Zuck and Murdoch are like pied pipers leading the modern sans culotte around by the nose, though. I'm not looking forward to the upcoming Terrors, in that analogy.
- joe_biden123 6y agoif you read turchin's paper his model has 3 parts. one accounts for elite competition, another for general/unskilled population wealth and a third one for the society's economy. elites aren't the only thing that produces instability those 2 other things