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  • The hostility of digital elites to expertise

  • Trump’s granddaughter has 500k YouTube followers and is producing videos from SpaceX launches đŸ˜Ź

  • How do global leaders perceive global risk?

  • Germany: The discreet lives of the super rich

  • What’s it like to spend your entire life as a cruise ship guest?

  • Medium as a forum for warring digital elites

  • It’s The Political Economy, Stupid

  • Who are the super-rich and what do they want?

  • Off shore capital and the great inflation

  • Elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy

  • The technocratic oath

  • Communism for the few

  • Digital Capitalism and Guard Labour

  • The Climate Agenda of Elites

  • Towards a sociology of Pikettyville

  • The evacuation of the social by elites 

  • The Janus-faced ideology of philanthropic elites

  • The growth of elite philanthropy 

  • Who are the world’s 950 billionaires?

  • Interned Professionals and Defensive Elites

  • The myth of user generated content

  • Is there a point of no return with entrenched elites?

  • Pity those ‘trapped by their wealth’

  • The capacity of elites to combine voice and exit

  • ‘The people who own the country should rule it’

  • The Defensiveness of Elites

  • The Internal Immigration of the American Elite

  • The defensiveness of contemporary elites 

  • Market liberalism and the foreclosure of politics

  • The Pathology of the Super-Rich

  • On Techno-Fascism

  • The genesis of the PayPal Mafia

  • The meritocratic elitism of Google 

  • grooming the next generation of the digital elite

  • the political psychology of the super rich

  • the idiocy of defensive elites

  • Inside the Lives of the 1% – How Power and Inequality Operate in Britain

  • “world of warcraft is the new golf”

  • the anxieties of ageing digital elites 

  • over-reach by unelected technocrats

  • the threats of financial elites 

  • the threats of financial elites 

  • post-democratic political culture: how good leaders go bad

  • the social expectations of the super-rich

  • the self-congratulation of digital elites 

  • markets are a machine for destroying the ego

  • pride and pleasure in acceleration 

  • data fetishism and the elites of digital capitalism 

  • the culture of the ‘working rich’

  • Is it just managers who are heating up the floor to see who can keep hopping the longest?

  • Mike Savage on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century

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