It's funny how we've gone from the divine right of kings to social darwinism to 'meritocracy' with no one in the upper classes really even blinking.
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Yeah, Gregory Clark has done a ton of work in this area. But there has been a definite shift. “Upper Class” meant “WASP” in the US until the second half of this century.
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The US has had a particularly dynamic, to not say sharp-elbowed, economic contest over the past few decades. Both a bug in some ways, and a feature in others.
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