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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Ancient epic is the beginning of this genre
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The Olympian gods were billionaires
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Didn't like, Veblen do this, already?
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Maybe I'm just imagining his saying politics was a type of conspicuous consumption of the leisure class
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I see no reason this shouldn't be a university department.
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And the profoundly alienating experience of suspecting everyone around you of being motivated by your money.
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What is there to be said? It's a pretty well-understood phenomenon
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