This is an important thread. Crystallizes something I perceived spending 25 years in the Boston/Cambridge area: there are a lot of people earning $35k/yr and barely making ends meet who THINK that they are in the elite overclass. "We" do this, "we" do that. NPR, books blah blah >https://twitter.com/LinManuelRwanda/status/1457796393800663045 …
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Highlighting that it's the relation between the opposite quadrants that carries political valence--the janissaries don't care about the real working class, they don't think of them at all. Likewise WC doesn't particularly admire or envy entrepreneurs, they're just bosses.
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Hits me that
@Chris_arnade is the epitome of the blue line here, a managerial elite trying to speak for the bottom-out-of-sight. The blue line in general is also admiration and concern—it’s the “poor” and “rich” who think of each other in those terms.
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