Greetings good citizen,
Were someone to ask you what you thought (believed) your ‘class membership’ was, how would you answer?
Tragically, many of you would mistakenly identify yourself as ‘middle class’, hell that’s the catch phrase all of the politicians use…(so it must be true!)
If you’re homeless you MIGHT suck it up and admit to being ‘poor’ (not that this helps or proves anything, circumstances change all of the time.)
Unsurprisingly, there is just as much confusion/mis-identification when it comes to accurately classifying the ‘upper classes!
So, now we have ‘plutocrats’ being (mis) identified by their tychoonish traits rather then their inherited and very much ‘entrenched wealth’.
So Joe Bootstrapper is a ‘plutocrat’ (which is antithetical to the term ‘self-made man’.)
It is not my intention to kick the author in the shins for abusing a term, I regularly do it myself.
My point, such as it is, is how muddy the waters of ‘class’ have become. Most people ‘self-identify’ as being ‘middle class’ whether they are or they aren’t.
Like I said, you only ‘might’ get a homeless person to admit to being poor, just as you’d be equally as hard-pressed to get a ‘well-born’ individual to admit he was a ‘plutocrat’.
S/He’ll readily admit to being ‘upper class’ but vehemently deny being a ‘One Percenter’ (given the amount of bad press associated with the term recently.)
While the real fox in the hen house is the ONE TENTH of One Percent!
What do we call them (besides peckerheads) if not ‘plutocrats’?
Most would agree that ‘plutocrat’ is pretty much interchangable with ‘oligarch’ as both terms exemplify entrenched wealth AND power…both political and legal…(such as it is.)
Perhaps it is my personal conviction that ‘all money is funny’ that is giving me this quaint ‘comprehension problem’…
While money has often been equated in the ignorant person’s mind with power, money is actually meaningless. Tens of trillions of it can be whipped up instantly with the stroke of a pen! (Our failed banking industry has proven that by ‘conjuring’ a quadrillion dollars US into existence out of thin air!)
Just because the bought and paid for corporate owned media ignores this doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Nope, the ‘real problem’ is our house is burning down around us and while we all know this, nobody is doing anything to put the fire out…
Soon all that will be left are ashes…and memories.
Why is this seeming unthinkable thing happening?
Could it be because we have surrounded ourselves with traitors (who are in it for themselves) and our so-called ‘academics’ don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground?
How stunningly stupid is it that the ‘smartest guys in the room’ are running around with their hair on fire?
Re-directing once again, I am compelled to ask how we can expect to solve the problem if we can’t agree on the cause?
The OWS movement put the One Percent into the crosshairs…but failed to pull the trigger.
Now we have works like this one attempting to muddy the waters by calling innovators ‘plutocrats’ simply because they’re rich…
Mr. Zuckerburg is ‘rich’ but he’s hardly the ‘menace to society’ most of his ‘cousins’ at Harvard are.
In fact you have to wonder just how successful Facebook would have been if it hadn’t gotten its start in the ‘plutocracy’ (entrenched climate of wealth and power) that IS Harvard?
Money does not a ‘plutocrat’ make.
In the end it’s about old family ties and the ability to bend reality to your liking that makes one a ‘plutocrat/oligarch’.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Were someone to ask you what you thought (believed) your ‘class membership’ was, how would you answer?
Tragically, many of you would mistakenly identify yourself as ‘middle class’, hell that’s the catch phrase all of the politicians use…(so it must be true!)
If you’re homeless you MIGHT suck it up and admit to being ‘poor’ (not that this helps or proves anything, circumstances change all of the time.)
Unsurprisingly, there is just as much confusion/mis-identification when it comes to accurately classifying the ‘upper classes!
Life Among the Plutocrats -- What Unimaginable Wealth Does to a Person
They control our politics, shape our societies, outsource our jobs.
January 4, 2013 |
Reviewed:Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, by Chrystia Freeland (Doubleday, Canada 2012)
Last year the Occupy movement brought the subject of inequality into public debate, and especially the inequality between those of us in the 99 per cent and the happy few in the one per cent. But Chrystia Freeland has been studying the happy few for years, and has spent many hours talking with some of their most famous and powerful members.
The result is a book full of surprises and insights. Today's plutocrats are the latest variation on an old theme, and at the same time they're strikingly new in many ways.
Societies have supported plutocratic classes at least since ancient Rome, and the Gilded Age of the US after the Civil War presaged our own: A rising class of self-made men, imaginative exploiters of new technology and wider trade. Then it was the telegraph and the railroad; now it's the internet and the container ship.
So, now we have ‘plutocrats’ being (mis) identified by their tychoonish traits rather then their inherited and very much ‘entrenched wealth’.
So Joe Bootstrapper is a ‘plutocrat’ (which is antithetical to the term ‘self-made man’.)
It is not my intention to kick the author in the shins for abusing a term, I regularly do it myself.
My point, such as it is, is how muddy the waters of ‘class’ have become. Most people ‘self-identify’ as being ‘middle class’ whether they are or they aren’t.
Like I said, you only ‘might’ get a homeless person to admit to being poor, just as you’d be equally as hard-pressed to get a ‘well-born’ individual to admit he was a ‘plutocrat’.
S/He’ll readily admit to being ‘upper class’ but vehemently deny being a ‘One Percenter’ (given the amount of bad press associated with the term recently.)
While the real fox in the hen house is the ONE TENTH of One Percent!
What do we call them (besides peckerheads) if not ‘plutocrats’?
Most would agree that ‘plutocrat’ is pretty much interchangable with ‘oligarch’ as both terms exemplify entrenched wealth AND power…both political and legal…(such as it is.)
Perhaps it is my personal conviction that ‘all money is funny’ that is giving me this quaint ‘comprehension problem’…
While money has often been equated in the ignorant person’s mind with power, money is actually meaningless. Tens of trillions of it can be whipped up instantly with the stroke of a pen! (Our failed banking industry has proven that by ‘conjuring’ a quadrillion dollars US into existence out of thin air!)
Just because the bought and paid for corporate owned media ignores this doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Nope, the ‘real problem’ is our house is burning down around us and while we all know this, nobody is doing anything to put the fire out…
Soon all that will be left are ashes…and memories.
Why is this seeming unthinkable thing happening?
Could it be because we have surrounded ourselves with traitors (who are in it for themselves) and our so-called ‘academics’ don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground?
How stunningly stupid is it that the ‘smartest guys in the room’ are running around with their hair on fire?
Re-directing once again, I am compelled to ask how we can expect to solve the problem if we can’t agree on the cause?
The OWS movement put the One Percent into the crosshairs…but failed to pull the trigger.
Now we have works like this one attempting to muddy the waters by calling innovators ‘plutocrats’ simply because they’re rich…
Mr. Zuckerburg is ‘rich’ but he’s hardly the ‘menace to society’ most of his ‘cousins’ at Harvard are.
In fact you have to wonder just how successful Facebook would have been if it hadn’t gotten its start in the ‘plutocracy’ (entrenched climate of wealth and power) that IS Harvard?
Money does not a ‘plutocrat’ make.
In the end it’s about old family ties and the ability to bend reality to your liking that makes one a ‘plutocrat/oligarch’.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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