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And so we have reached the point of discussing makers on Etsy and people with OF accounts in an article about elites.
by wwilim 4y ago
And so we have reached the point of discussing makers on Etsy and people with OF accounts in an article about elites.
- rippercushions 4y agoThe article muddles together being "elite" and trying to earn a living through creating art. There's a correlation -- it's quite difficult to spend four years getting a liberal arts degree without some sort of privilege thinking that this is a good idea and footing the bill -- but it's not exactly 1:1, and many Etsy/OF types did not go down this path.
- pydry 4y ago"Elite overproduction" deliberately muddles together "elite" with "people scraping together a living making trinkets on etsy" because "elite" carries quite a negative connotation and the richer and more powerful the 1% get, the more they hate being singled out.
- jmeister 4y agoHave you read Turchin? He defines the term rigorously to refer to a particular social-economic class
- pydry 4y agoYes. https://archive.is/XWiGM https://archive.is/XWiGM Here he is bemoaning the glut of decidedly non elite law graduates under a title of "elite overproduction". If he rigorously defined billionaire to mean anybody earning over $100k it would hardly be more ridiculous.