When i was growing up, the elits were seen as solid and hard working. Now we have a worst political class in my memory,. ever. It just seems to me, how did we get so dumb? Yes? So one of the claim that i make in my writings about the luxury beliefs is the way that social status has shifted away from material goods. I think this is dangerous, because if you're a working class or blue collored person and you are closer to daily realities, you're not as insulated from it. You can't necessarily pinpoint who's poor, who'se middle class, who's rich, just by their appearance. And the way that people now indicate their