Erik Torenberg
@erik
Wake up babe new MOZ episode just dropped. @antonio @dwr.eth @sriramk.eth @aarthi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EIesa5epY4&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F&feature=emb_logo
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markus - ethOS - e/acc-d
@markus
Lol, millionaires talking about elitism
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Erik Torenberg
@erik
what does money have to do with being an elite?
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
-Exclusive privileges related to wealth -control over your life and the life of others -it provides children with access to reinforced dynamics -reinforces idea that some people are more worth it than others -access to resources (healthcare, housing) -network effects -purchase social status through design …
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
-shapes cultural attitudes through funding (NFTs are as political as graffiti) -Pay to play is totally within means and not a problem -elite sports from polo to equestrian competition. Big wave Surfing -real state…
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Erik Torenberg
@erik
elites run institutions that determine how society functions. most millionaires do not run institutions that determine how society functions.
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
You can’t gerrymander concepts like that. Its a transparent rhetorical device that distorts meaning and will lead to equivocal frames “the glass is half empty or half full"
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Erik Torenberg
@erik
There is a discourse over the last few centuries on elite culture from Burnham and Pareto to Paul Fussell to David Brooks to lots of other people in between. I'm not gerrymandering anything, I'm participating in that ongoing conversation. https://www.amazon.com/Populist-Delusion-Neema-Parvini/dp/1922602442
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Erik Torenberg
@erik
also https://www.piratewires.com/p/elite
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Dan
@dberg
Agree with a lot of this but the person with a chain of 7-11s or a car dealership empire probably has friends in local legislature and can exert influence over local politics in a way most ppl without money cannot. How universal rather than local does your power need to be to be considered elite? Obv its a spectrum
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
The guy who owns 7-11s can’t get federal legislation passed. The NYT columnist as more influence on that process.
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