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The 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
by rippercushions 4y ago
The 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.