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David Brooks's "Bobos in Paradise"

If Books Could Kill

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Are We Talking About CEOs or Bobos?

Barbara Erin Reich, who passed away earlier this year, had completely discarded the concept of the professional managerial class. The debt ridden unemployed and underemployed college graduates all face the same kind of situation that confronted industrial workers in the late 20th century. Do you have any thoughts, David, on like the power structures at play here? This is what no class consciousness does to a motherfucker, right? Just like, huh, right?

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