Yarvin, for everything he gets correct, hasn't addressed the issue of elite overproduction, iirc. Is this merely a structural issue as well?
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We have elites in the wrong positions. All the brain power going to Wall Street to do a glorified version of card counting is a microcosm of it.
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The wall street people aren't really even elites in the classical sense. They dont operate like worldly noble administrations and arent trained to be that. Instead they are better thought as highly skilled tradesmen performing specialized and complicated tasks
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I think even we confuse creditionals with actual elite qualities. We have a bunch of people with degrees from prestigious universities, but when comparing them to the actual elites of the past, they genuinely pale in comparison in both breadth and depth of humanities knowledge.
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Even presidents like Grant and Teddy Roosevelt who weren't considered to be highly cultured elite men at their time and were seen as rougher outsiders blow the contemporary elites away in their scholarly and oratary abilities
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2. a group or class of people seen as having the greatest power and influence within a society, especially because of their wealth or privilege. I think this is the definition of "elite" Yarvin operates on the basis of. It does not entail quality, nor other positive adjectives.
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Not to take away from your point - I think it's a fair question. This is just how I'd respond in brief.
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something like 40% of our job positions are non-productive educated roles. It is physically impossible to get elite people into those roles.
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The managerial class has inherited the economic position and identity of the pre-industrial nobility just at a way-way larger scale.
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