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384 | Peter Turchin: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration
The Realignment
What's the Difference Between the Top 10% and the Top 1%?
I want to understand how this fixed set of musical chairs operationizes itself in the 21st century American meritocracy context. The frustrated people I encounter are not fortune 500 aspirants, it tends to usually be a top of the upper middle class. And we'll get into counter-elites, but this is where having read of the book, I have a million different questions here.
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