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Also all that hoarded unearned wealth can buy a lot of influence. Look around your city at who the civic leaders are and the agendas they are pushing with weal
by patja 5y ago
Also all that hoarded unearned wealth can buy a lot of influence. Look around your city at who the civic leaders are and the agendas they are pushing with wealth that accrued just because great grandpa followed his manifest destiny and was in the right place at the right time to acquire tracts of natural resources or now-valuable urban real estate.
- whimsicalism 5y agoYes. Another interesting dynamic is the interplay between national elites, usually focused in NY, DC, other urban cores, and local elites - the owners of the local bank, etc. etc. Not all or even most, necessarily, but a lot of the political divide in this country can be attributed to tensions between these two elite groups.