Extractive Elite
The Extractive Elite, also known as Rent-seeking Elite, Kleptocratic Elite, Unethical Elite, So-called Elite, Anti-Elite, or Fake Elite, stand in contrast to the public-spirited, insubordinate, sustainable, scientific, True Elite, which have been driven out of and are now almost non-existent in our current institutions.
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2009
Q: Cost(Collapse) >> Cost(Protected Dissenting Scientific Elite) ---> Cost(Cheap Academic Life) >> Cost(Expensive Academic Freedom)
2010
The subordination of the insobordinate elite: "That Feynman is becoming a real pain" http://bit.ly/moDE (as appendix F)
2016
Why do I always target "the rent-seeking elite" rather than "the elite"?
B/C the two groups are bitter rivals & we need the latter to win.
2019
@normonics @Gore_Burnelli @EricWeinstein How do you feel about elite surgeons?
Elite special forces?
Elite athletes?
Elite pilots?
Elite Scientists and Researchers?
Forget the word elite. Yes, we need to recognize outliers rather than have the fake & rent-seeking elite privatize the true outliers who threaten them.
@normonics @Gore_Burnelli @EricWeinstein Your true elite want to do a lot for the world. The rent-seeking elite find this terrifying. You donât want me doing amateur brain surgery on your child because you want to democratize everything. Iâm just not an elite musician so I let the top rise.There are limits to inclusion.
@normonics @Gore_Burnelli @EricWeinstein Well, I do want my generals to decide what is best for me as I donât know the military. But I want them accountable. But not overly so. You see where Iâm going? We have to trust elites. But they canât be private rent seekers and they canât be incompetent or wholly unaccountable.
2020
2021
Thereâs no better way to destroy elitism than calling our unethical rich âthe eliteâ.
Soon folks will want average relatable folks for their kidâs brain surgeon or good-enough hostage rescue units. Anyone else will remind them of a partner at Goldman conspiring at a fund raiser.
2025
It is the damndest thing.
We are, for example, decades in to a MASSIVE campaign by employers to portray American cititizens and Europeans as incapabale of doing what we are better at than anyone else on earth: science.
Itâs a multi-decade lie, broadcast 24/7 in surround sound.
This is not the elite behind the lie.
The actual elite are the American and European scientists. Itâs the anti-elite that hate our own elite STEM people who demand to be cut in.
Beware of calling our *anti-elite*, the elite. The elite are the ones taking the abuse full force.