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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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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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I kinda am that too since a lot of my work is in climate stuff, but as someone with no kids and old enough that I’ll probably be dead by the time it gets really bad, I’m almost neutral to whatever scenario unfolds
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But... what about younger friends, nieces/nephews, future readers, other people’s kids, humanity as a whole? Even though I might still have kids one day, I don’t feel like that’s at all my only form of skin in the game
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