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How Whole Foods, yoga, and NPR became the hallmarks of the elite

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Rise of the Upper Class

Heather Cox: Material goods are no longer as revealing a social position as they once were. She says the rise of manufacturing and entrepreneurship allowed for a different class of elites to emerge. But then what happens is that this in many ways collapses, she says. Richardson: We lose interest in things which are ubiquitous because they're not rarefied anymore.

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