This article sounds like “classicism” upside down, all “elite people” are boring, plastic, superficial, all the same, despair poor people, focused only on money… Blablah.
She finished with the drug dealer example, what if she went to a “gang-meeting” or Magic the Gathering meeting and tried to ask the same questions that she claims are not answered at this parties:
“ How do people talk about money? What makes people prestigious? What kind of traits influence social standing? How familiar are people with evaluating quality of research? How private are we supposed to keep gossip?”
She finished with the drug dealer example, what if she went to a “gang-meeting” or Magic the Gathering meeting and tried to ask the same questions that she claims are not answered at this parties:
“ How do people talk about money? What makes people prestigious? What kind of traits influence social standing? How familiar are people with evaluating quality of research? How private are we supposed to keep gossip?”
Would she have clear or better answers?