Alright, I’m starting the new field of billionaire studies. It will be fair and balanced, and neutral to class politics. It will treat them just like any other group studied by the social sciences and humanities.
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I think the class gets interesting and uniquely well-defined at the wealth level where they can start to significantly distort national politics in a developed country. Where they start to own certain tables rather than merely buying themselves a seat at it.
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One of the reasons I think this would be genuinely interesting is that both the fanboi hagiographies and the communist polemics are damn boring.
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Not large enough numbers for statistical analysis. Same with John von Neumann types. And not worth our attention except to find out why wealth has such a strong network-like power law effect.
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I said anthropology not statistics
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Largely a phantom menace. Billionaire class has a high churn rate also.
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Who said anything about menace. They are what they are. And churn rate us just a characteristic to study not a reason not to study.
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Billionaires don't have anything in common except that they have money. You might as well study blondes, or people who like cheese. There are a few trivial generalities: they tend to be smarter than average. They tend to have better health/bodies than average.
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I see no useful generalizations. But I do see an AWFUL lot of Availability Heuristic -- you've heard a lot about David Koch or Bunker Hunt, the loud nuts, therefore all billionaires are like Koch. That sort of thing...
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That would be interesting. Now I am more curious how to go about it.
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