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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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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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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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Don't know enough about the latest developments and their impacts to opine constructively. I'm sure there are anthropologists who would be interested in me and a few other people with very poor eyesight. What understanding of the human condition that will deliver is beyond me.
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Well, no point debating a concept that I simply can't grasp. But I'd still like to know a couple of reasons why studying billionaires may be interesting. Imagine you're writing a grant :)