“You have a situation now where there are many more elites fighting for the same position, and some portion of them will convert to counter-elites,”
Peter Turchin
The fundamental problems, he says, are a dark triad of social maladies: a bloated elite class, with too few elite jobs to go around; declining living standards among the general population; and a government that can’t cover its financial positions.
The problems begin when money and Harvard degrees become like royal titles in Saudi Arabia. If lots of people have them, but only some have real power, the ones who don’t have power eventually turn on the ones who do.
The Atlantic December 2020
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/
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