Capitalism is working so good that capitalists are the most consistently class conscious group. They are aware which class they belong to and side with it.
It feels more like people gravitate towards the “winning” team because they have the lion’s share of resources and commensurate status.
Billionaires are broadly class conscious, but they routinely feud and back stab one another in pursuit of primacy. Organizations have their own internal politics. People are regularly promoted and ousted as economic conditions shift and ideology drifts. Just ask any status climbing POC who had the ladder kicked out from under them in the name of DEI. Or any “Big Balls” DOGE teen who finds himself the de facto executive of a multi-billion dollar USAID program.
I would say the starkest shifts in Trumpian politics are the ways in which he’s redefining winners and losers in the domestic economy. Finance is out. Silicon Valley is in. Not all plutocrats are created equal.
Capitalism is working so good that capitalists are the most consistently class conscious group. They are aware which class they belong to and side with it.
It feels more like people gravitate towards the “winning” team because they have the lion’s share of resources and commensurate status.
Billionaires are broadly class conscious, but they routinely feud and back stab one another in pursuit of primacy. Organizations have their own internal politics. People are regularly promoted and ousted as economic conditions shift and ideology drifts. Just ask any status climbing POC who had the ladder kicked out from under them in the name of DEI. Or any “Big Balls” DOGE teen who finds himself the de facto executive of a multi-billion dollar USAID program.
I would say the starkest shifts in Trumpian politics are the ways in which he’s redefining winners and losers in the domestic economy. Finance is out. Silicon Valley is in. Not all plutocrats are created equal.