Yeah - one struggle I'm having is that lots of people seem to be saying 'no, but that's not what he means by luxury belief!' or 'no, but that's not who we would expect to have these beliefs anyway'. Would be very useful if the claim was formulated in a way as such to clearly be falsifiable/verifiable.
Yeah - one struggle I'm having is that lots of people seem to be saying 'no, but that's not what he means by luxury belief!' or 'no, but that's not who we would expect to have these beliefs anyway'. Would be very useful if the claim was formulated in a way as such to clearly be falsifiable/verifiable.
Let's try to steelman the "luxury belief" and "elites":
1. it is likely to be synonym to "midwit" and "small-souled bugmen" characterized by naive optimism, golemization, collective unformity, psuedo-contrarianism, novelty-seeking, linear thinking, excessive spectatorship, and atomization.
2. these people do not fit the proper definition of elites (e.g. the top 1%) but the "clueless" and "educated gentry", or the "professional-managerial middle class" (e.g. top 5-20%) characterized by organizational work and specialized knowledge work, rather than entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and generalized reasoning.
3. This misrecognition can be called "elite overproduction" or "mid-tier underproduction", where the social incentive to excessively inflate corporate prestiges leads to a disconnect between paper knowledge and talent "facts on the ground", hollowing out specialty craft goods ('etsy' goods) production in the process.
Yeah - one struggle I'm having is that lots of people seem to be saying 'no, but that's not what he means by luxury belief!' or 'no, but that's not who we would expect to have these beliefs anyway'. Would be very useful if the claim was formulated in a way as such to clearly be falsifiable/verifiable.
Let's try to steelman the "luxury belief" and "elites":
1. it is likely to be synonym to "midwit" and "small-souled bugmen" characterized by naive optimism, golemization, collective unformity, psuedo-contrarianism, novelty-seeking, linear thinking, excessive spectatorship, and atomization.
2. these people do not fit the proper definition of elites (e.g. the top 1%) but the "clueless" and "educated gentry", or the "professional-managerial middle class" (e.g. top 5-20%) characterized by organizational work and specialized knowledge work, rather than entrepreneurship, leadership skills, and generalized reasoning.
3. This misrecognition can be called "elite overproduction" or "mid-tier underproduction", where the social incentive to excessively inflate corporate prestiges leads to a disconnect between paper knowledge and talent "facts on the ground", hollowing out specialty craft goods ('etsy' goods) production in the process.