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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And you’re wrong about statistics too actually, there’s several hundred, which is enough for a lot of questions. And definitely worth attention for a lot more reasons than the one you seem to care about.
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That's interesting. Why do you think they are worth our attention?
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I meant that you can't really do anthropology on a small group unless they are totally socially isolated. Each one is unique.
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That’s a very dated Margaret Mead era view of what anthropology is. Most modern anthropologists study groups within civilizational cores, many much smaller than “billionaires”
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Everyone is a billionaire in Zimbabwe
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