I think that two different cultures are being discussed here. > I expect that my life experience constitutes an extremely biased sample of the power elite. I

I think that two different cultures are being discussed here. > I expect that my life experience constitutes an extremely biased sample of the power elite. I don't have to deal with the executives of arbitrary corporations, or form business relationships with people I never selected. I just meet them at gatherings and talk to the interesting ones. I would be more interested in a study of CEOs that looked at the kind of company being run. I expect the subset of CEOs that deal with transhumanism or new technologies to have a more winnowing route to the top than the CEOs of larger or more traditional companies - a Sears can only innovate so much, and even with a looter CEO can manage to stay afloat.