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Re:How elites misread public opinion by vegetablepotpie on Saturday June 18, 2022 @02:45PM (#31792608)
We’re assuming that public opinion influences policy.

The opinions of the top 10% of income earners correlates highly with the direction of US policy whereas the bottom 90% have very small influence. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

Re:How elites misread public opinion by esoterica on Saturday June 18, 2022 @02:59PM (#31792716)
And yet the engineers and other PMCs who are definitely in the top 10% by income still conceive of themselves as part of an oppressed underclass with no influence on policy direction.
Re:How elites misread public opinion by kevinventullo on Saturday June 18, 2022 @03:03PM (#31792737)
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say those who are in the top 10% by income/wealth in their state of residence.
Re:How elites misread public opinion by whimsicalism on Saturday June 18, 2022 @02:48PM (#31792634)
Yes, yes, yes the Princeton study.

But I don't think I made any such assumption.