The jet-setting cosmopolitans of popular imagination exist, but they are far outnumbered by a less exalted and less discussed elite group, one that sits at the pinnacle of America’s local hierarchies.
  • davelAEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    They have a soft paywall now: https://archive.ph/zDCqm

    These elites’ wealth derives not from their salary—this is what separates them from even extremely prosperous members of the professional-managerial class, such as doctors and lawyers—but from their ownership of assets.

    The Atlantic has gone tankie.

      • davelAEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        It’s a joke. Ask a dozen liberals what a tankie is and you’ll get a dozen conflicting answers. It’s just the new pejorative thought-terminating cliché, like “commie” or “pinko”.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
      2·
      6 days ago

      Patrick Wyman in general has pretty good analysis I find. He’s a historian, and he has a great podcast series on the fall of Rome which I can highly recommend.

      • davelAEnglish
        6·
        6 days ago

        I mean they’ve identified the core difference between the proletariat/working class and the bourgeoisie/capitalist class. Namely that the bourgeoisie accumulate their wealth through their ownership of the means of production.

      • Cowbee [he/they]
        51·
        6 days ago

        It’s similar to Marxist analysis, and Marxists are always slandered as “tankies.”