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That the aristocracy is not geographically local makes it less socially humiliating to ask them for help, but the arrangement is still financially problematic.
by tormeh 12y ago
That the aristocracy is not geographically local makes it less socially humiliating to ask them for help, but the arrangement is still financially problematic.
That the aristocracy has become more abstract does not mean it has ceased to exist.
- happyscrappy 12y agoIf the aristocracy has become so abstract that it includes Kickstarter then the word has lost all meaning.
- tormeh 12y ago1. Kickstarter is very new 2. Kickstarter is so small as to basically being a rounding error
- happyscrappy 12y agoSo when Kickstarter is bigger or if you consider all crowdfunding then it is an aristocracy? My point still holds. If reality gets in the way of dogma you might want to abandon your dogma.
- tormeh 12y agoYour esoteric examples are irrelevant. Come back when a significant percentage of the population finance their house with crowdfunding rather than a mortgage. You seem to be grasping at straws to defend your dogma, and quite honestly you drew a pretty short straw.