TheyLive [he/him]

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Cake day: May 4th, 2021

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  • I think because it's tying consumption together with like feelings of charity and do-gooding. This is basically how people feel about purchasing physical media and subscribing to podcasts, YouTubers, etc. now. It's like the material exchange logic is gone "you need a shirt, they need compensation" and replaced with "I'm supporting a small business" "I'm donating to a wildlife fund" "I'm supporting a political podcast" "I'm helping the video game company and encouraging them to make more in the series I love".




  • This is what its conceptualization of a political cleavage amounts to—a much looser sense than is usual in the best political science, the implications of which will be discussed below. Most of the emphasis falls on a reversal of the political articulation of (relatively) high education within Western democracies. From party systems in which high-income and highly educated people historically voted right while low-income and less well educated citizens voted left, a different pattern is developing in which the right is instead supported by high-income voters with low education, and the left sustained by those with low incomes and high education. The new system, for opaque mathematical reasons classified as one of ‘multiple elites’, therefore harbours two distinct elites: a high-education, low-income ‘Brahmin Left’ and a high-income, low-education ‘Merchant Right’.

    https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii129/articles/goran-therborn-inequality-and-world-political-landscapes