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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Oct 2019
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    We don’t talk enough about billionaires as a class, with anthropological patterns and stuff. Though they get tons of attention, almost all of it is either valorizing or demonizing individual attention, or vague commentary about a strawman top-hatted archetype.

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Oct 2019
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        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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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Oct 2019
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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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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Oct 2019
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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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      2. Biswajit Banerjee‏ @parresianz 5 Oct 2019
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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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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Oct 2019
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        I said anthropology not statistics

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      1. Jscott‏ @DailySuicide 5 Oct 2019
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        That would be interesting. Now I am more curious how to go about it.

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      2. Pirates sleep soundly (for Santa)‏ @Wit_recycler 5 Oct 2019
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        Largely a phantom menace. Billionaire class has a high churn rate also.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Oct 2019
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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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      2. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 5 Oct 2019
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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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      3. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 5 Oct 2019
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        But some were lucky, some were very clever. Most worked very hard, even if you don't want to call what they did work. They have different politics, different theories of humanity, different goals for their money, different child-rearing philosophies.

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