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Yeah, elites really feel like a sort of “Schroedinger’s enemy”. If people oppose the argument you can claim that they’re standing up for billionaires who don’t

Yeah, elites really feel like a sort of “Schroedinger’s enemy”. If people oppose the argument you can claim that they’re standing up for billionaires who don’t care about them and don’t need their support. If the reception is friendly it might turn out that the “elites” are actually middle class college activists who are “elite” because they went to college. Like, some people’s definitions are so warped that a millionaire small business owner (think someone who owns a successful downtown restaurant in a mid-sized city) is “the common man” while an artist who works at a coffee shop and lives in a rundown studio apartment is somehow “elite”.

pydry 4y ago
Elite pretty much means anyone with political and economic power. Politicians, billionaires, lobbyists, CEOs, etc. It's not a particularly fuzzy honorific. Of course they dont like all the negative attention so sometimes they will try to designate elites as "anybody with a college degree" as one of many means of rhetorically disguising their power. For example, the economist does here: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/10/22/can-too-many-brainy-people-be-a-dangerous-thing https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/10/22/c...