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    1. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 27 Sep 2021

      A thing I’ve been contemplating and will write on is how our discussions about class (which should be about money) have become about cultural class, and not about money at all. Which is weird!

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    2. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 27 Sep 2021

      I think @OsitaNwanevu made this point over the weekend but we very rarely discuss working class people who live in major cities or on the coasts, people who are somehow framed as “elite” purely because they live in a city.

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    3. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 27 Sep 2021

      Being an elite, to me, should mean “being wealthy and thus having more economic power,” but that’s not what people frame it to mean anymore, because that would indict too many of those very same people.

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    4. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 27 Sep 2021

      Now you can be an elite while making virtually no money, while someone who owns like six car dealerships in Findlay, Ohio is not an elite, despite having a significant income. This is very strange to me!

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    5. Jane Coaston‏Verified account @janecoaston 27 Sep 2021

      I think the overall thing is not that the guy who has a PhD has no power, or that the guy who owns six car dealerships has no power, it's that they *both* have power, but neither seems to want that, because that carries responsibility in some manner.

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    6. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 27 Sep 2021
      Replying to @janecoaston

      This doesn't seem that strange. You, as someone who writes for the NYT and has a podcast that lots of people listen to, have far more influence in the US than a random guy who owns a car dealership in Akron, even though he's a lot richer.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Sep 2021
      Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @janecoaston

      Weirdly American tax, energy and transportation policy is all set to satisfy the car dealer in Akron, not the NYC podcaster.

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        2. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 27 Sep 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @janecoaston

          Sure, sure. If GM and Ford owned their own dealerships, energy and transportation policy would be really different.

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        3. Theinternetcommenter‏ @webcommenter 27 Sep 2021
          Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet @janecoaston

          I'm not sure of your point. You're saying the car dealership owners in reality have the same influence you imagine multinational corporations would in a different scenario and that's an argument that they're not powerful?

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