Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
understanding of human relationships as market phenomena,
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
The wealthy and powerful families in Boston, New York, or Los Angeles are molded by these institutions into a tribe. School, family, and entitlement effectively combine. The elites vacation together, ski at the same Swiss resorts, and know the names of the same restaurants in New York and Paris. They lunch at the same clubs and golf on the same gre
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The new knowledge economy created a new class of Americans: men and women with college degrees (at the very least), skilled with symbols and numbers, salaried professionals in information technology, scientific research, design, management consulting, the upper civil service, financial analysis, medicine, law, journalism, the arts, higher education
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
In trying to define ourselves through local class signifiers, we can be robbed of community and have it sold back to us as own personalities—ones that will separate us from the crowd.