I get these on Dancos mailing list and haven't finished article yet but reading the comment thread I'm super interested in how provocative it was to HN. The Ge

I get these on Dancos mailing list and haven't finished article yet but reading the comment thread I'm super interested in how provocative it was to HN. The Gervais Principle was a great/cynical popular summary of some more refined ideas in management theory. Generalizing it to a theory of post-internet globalized class seems straight forward, with the caveat that it can only be as useful as any theory of class. It's the Marxist ceiling, like how classical Newtonian physics is fantastic for modelling coarse engineering problems, and loses coherence when applied to the nature of reality, and doesnt provide much more than some metaphors for things as normal as economics. Reading through it, I don't think this was written so much as an explanatory piece for an HN audience as it was to find others thinking about these problems.