I think things were very much structured like this in 1950s America. And some of the “virtuous elite” may have even taken seriously this supposed role of theirs. Some of them may have had the capacity to have at least some guilt for just being the parasitic and idle rich.
However, the qons kept agitating and agitating to have lower and lower tax rates for the poor aggrieved extremely rich and so you see a stark rise in CEO compensation, huge wealth inequality spikes and a gigantic crash in union membership and government services…
You’re forgetting about the whole “segregation” period with those rose tinted glasses and ignoring that it was UNIONS that fought and bled for their standard of living, not the oligarchs.
Oh, my comment was not intended to gloss over any problems of the marginalized in the 1950s or to credit the elite with unions; my point is that there may have been some elite that took the concept of being benevolent seriously; the rest worked to dismantle any benefits to the middle class for their own (further) benefit.
I think things were very much structured like this in 1950s America. And some of the “virtuous elite” may have even taken seriously this supposed role of theirs. Some of them may have had the capacity to have at least some guilt for just being the parasitic and idle rich.
However, the qons kept agitating and agitating to have lower and lower tax rates for the poor aggrieved extremely rich and so you see a stark rise in CEO compensation, huge wealth inequality spikes and a gigantic crash in union membership and government services…
You’re forgetting about the whole “segregation” period with those rose tinted glasses and ignoring that it was UNIONS that fought and bled for their standard of living, not the oligarchs.
Oh, my comment was not intended to gloss over any problems of the marginalized in the 1950s or to credit the elite with unions; my point is that there may have been some elite that took the concept of being benevolent seriously; the rest worked to dismantle any benefits to the middle class for their own (further) benefit.