I can't go along. For me, aristocracy is much related to skin in the game. What is described here is a smart-aleck aristocracy, oriented to it's degenerate states.
I can't go along. For me, aristocracy is much related to skin in the game. What is described here is a smart-aleck aristocracy, oriented to it's degenerate states.
Curious to what you mean by "skin in the game." You mean family trees?
I guess this post is a thought experiment and the word "aristocracy" might not fit in all of its particulars - in the absence of landed wealth, titles, etc, it's really much more difficult for a particular class to define itself and then self-perpetuate - but certainly passing on a certain kind of status is critical to people who are of the class I'm describing.
I can't go along. For me, aristocracy is much related to skin in the game. What is described here is a smart-aleck aristocracy, oriented to it's degenerate states.
Hi Schweinpriester,
Curious to what you mean by "skin in the game." You mean family trees?
I guess this post is a thought experiment and the word "aristocracy" might not fit in all of its particulars - in the absence of landed wealth, titles, etc, it's really much more difficult for a particular class to define itself and then self-perpetuate - but certainly passing on a certain kind of status is critical to people who are of the class I'm describing.