They leverage their power and connections to remain anonymous and away from public scrutiny.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_family
Who've probably got their hands in too many things:
* https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Kochland/Christopher-...
* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/07/kochland-rev...
* https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/kochland-examin...
Think about, this is only 3-4 generations back. What neuroscience is revealing about shared/inherited brain structures and limbic->cortex system algorithms, the habits of agency haven’t had that long to fade out, especially as we clung to tribal communities and abusive nuclear family silos.
But those families control LEO, so their mandate is to fight DVD player theft and smoking pot.
They again demonize our individual minor failings to control the greater human narrative, gift trillions to their buds while we fight over TP, face masks, and flat or skeuomorphic UI day to day. Doing the real important social work!
Western culture hasn’t really evolved it’s emotional organization habits all that much until recent times, say the last 20 years.
Now that the first generations raised primarily on science and a much less overt, yet still present, racism are coming into power, we’ll see.
Until the last generation though, most people in power were raised in “story mode”. “Be a godheaded manipulator, manage the masses effort and agency, for of course they’re idiots for not having your job of rich guy! If I can do it anyone can! Why they aren’t is their free will!”
At first glance, but then we're forced to recall the entire Epstein shenanigans.
And that's only bits of insight in to that level of indulgent debauchery.
https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Are-Different-Priceless-Quotatio...
What I've learned is that money is a multiplier for personality and if you have a humble personality, then you'll stay humble while you're rich (with some caveats about people that are not truly humble).
The emphasis is on the extreme, privileged and over-the-top attitudes stereotypically encountered.
Fortunately, exclusive communities with these stereotypical aspirations are not as overwhelming as they could be.
It's a small book, largely true quotations, and I think worth reading as an entertaining way to refresh awareness of peculiarities that can arise as riches are struck or wealth is created or increased.
The Russian privatization post Communism also handed a large amount of state resources to the well connected, who are now in many ways more entrenched than they were under Communism.
I ask because your entire judgment is not based on anything consistent with civilization’s record with property claims and is really a 20th century phenomenon.
A student accuses the University staff of corruption and end killed by a mob for blasphemy.
Its one example
Recent version could be something like this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...
Or any of the other modern topics people have mentioned. It'd need to be combined with having the ability and intent to acquire the property of the targeted people.
In the above example, being the people don't seem to really own much/any property anyway, maybe it's harder than it first looks?
In contrast, workers and professionals must sell their personal skills in the labor market to survive. Unless they are extremely lucky, opportunistic, and hardworking and doing so become part of the gentry, their children will have to do the same.
When I research a lot of wealthy families I frequently find their level of comfort not possible to replicate because it is something considered impropriety today. Taking advantage of an imbalance in the socioeconomic order that was promptly fixed as soon as anybody noticed.