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DPRK’s top 1% live what amounts to an upper middle class life, and tend to educate their children abroad. My understanding is that they even have access to an
by Zetice 3y ago
DPRK’s top 1% live what amounts to an upper middle class life, and tend to educate their children abroad.
My understanding is that they even have access to an unfiltered Internet supplied by China. The threat of extermination of their families if they step out of line politically seems to keep those people in check.
- isk517 3y agoI would think they are kept in check the same way the upper middle class is kept in check pretty much everywhere in the world. They live a very comfortable life style and have no interest in doing anything that would jeopardize that.
- Zetice 3y agoThat's a latent function present to varying degrees in every society (who wants to rock the boat if you're having a good ride?), whereas the threat to one's family is more of a manifest function, sociologically speaking.