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Rob Henderson: Social Problems Need Social Solutions

From the New World

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Luxury Beliefs - It's Not Like the Same, Right?

I think that as kind of social status and ability to influence the chattering class has like decoupled from economic productivity, these things are now basically competing with each other. It's just that we have a different kind of elite now made up in part by some descendants of the wasps and the blue bloods,. But then also the people who benefited from some of the things you were talking about, right? So yeah, there was a, there was an interesting study. The upper middle class probably wields more influence than the top 1%. I mean, in part because they outnumber them, but then also because these are the people who show up to PTA meetings and local politics

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