Elites still be elites. West Coast elites pick from Stanford instead of Yale. Desk jockeys win out against hand and body workers. It’s the same, just spread wes

Elites still be elites. West Coast elites pick from Stanford instead of Yale. Desk jockeys win out against hand and body workers. It’s the same, just spread westward. What new things have been enabled that might affect class? I’m not sure that “influencers” obtain a higher class level. They’re an interesting beneficiary of the technology shifts, but it’s tech more as publishing platform than tech as tech. New commerce platforms allow a different patterns of buyers and sellers, but we’ve always had a variety of merchants. The ability to own and apply statistical models as produced by ML seems like elite. Are the people who build and own these drawn from lower-than-elite classes? I think the VCs and other investors that prosper from them are the definition of elite class.