So, Who Or What Is An “Elite” Nowadays?
I think a decent amount about class and classism and relationships between different strata of society. I think, if I may psychoanalyze myself for a second, that I’m intrigued by these things because I grew up upper-middle-class on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, but my dad also had a financial reversal around when I was 11, so I saw that for a bit. And, as an adult, I’ve been destitute and had -$0.36 in checking for a whole weekend. I’ve also bartended a little bit (once early adulthood, once recently) and seen how people at bars interact with money and wealth, and that’s also intriguing. So, the whole thing fascinates me. I’ve written about it a bunch as a result.
As such, this article was interesting:
Let me give you a series of screenshots from that article, if you want to walk through them:
