What makes someone part of the 'elite'

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pootiessock
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This is a college football forum.

A good portion of the participants in this forum graduated from some form of university.

I, did not, yet.

After the election I decided to read Trump's book 'never give up'

It was about different deals he had structured and the setbacks he encountered. While it didn't go deep on the technicals of how he kept the deals alive, it did provide enough details to make it interesting.

In his book he recommended reading Microtrends.

So I listened to it. It was a very interesting book written by a pollster in 2007. He nailed 'gender fluid' becoming mainstream by reading the polls and trends from college campuses.

So I read microtrend squared, written in 2017, where the author talks about the disconnect from the elites and the numbers, highlighted by their TDS around the Russian hoax. He took a big steaming **** on the college educated.

I read on average a book a week.

I live in the real world.

I read these forums and see a ****load of *****ing from people with a 'better' education than me.

But very few solutions from the educated.

I introduced this board to the book accidental super power.

This weeks book is the follow up disunited nations.

Recommend it to your elite frands

polarice
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Mmkay, will do
titan
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I wonder what your book will say.

When hear the term today, imo, would associate it with what I call "narrative setters" and "policy setters" among the rich. Unless they are involved in that, its not their income or assets that count as much. By this model for example, even though not part of the Constitution, today's national media to a notable degree is an unelected body setting national policy as a result of their close fusion and symbiosis with the Democratic Party and both in turn with the larger global media-transnational agenda. Any member of that group is of the elite. This would also include the upper and middle tiers of the unelected bureaucracy of the so-called `swamp'. But only the levels capable of hiring and firing and setting regulations that are enforced by law ---that is, able to change things.

By this model, it is entirely possible that you are rich, but if a `working' kind, who is having to keep up with it regularly, and who the economic ups and downs instantly impact, you might not be this kind of `elite' --- because you don't set policy or narrative.

Others would probably go for a simplistic thing like anyone north of some huge upper six or lower seven figures is `elite' ---- but imo they have to have the ability to impact the national narrative or policy to fit the connotation people really are thinking of. IMO, there is a very real "working type" of even super rich that are far more connected to daily life and ordinary living perspectives than a Zucker or Pelosi. That is just my take.
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jeremy
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You are the second one to recommend "The accidental super power" to me. I'm going to listen to it this week.

Am I correct that the author wrote follow up books but some of his predictions happened so fast that his 3rd book had to be amended?
azul_rain
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Ags4DaWin
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I agree with Titan.

You see the term 1% thrown around alot like its the top 1% that sets policy and controls the country.

They do not.

To be a member of the "elite" you don't even have to have large amounts of money, although many do. The elite are those that have and use their power to steer the national ship and control the national narrative.

Media members, deep state beaurocrats, career politicians of 15 years or more who have connections and can control where national resources go and what laws come to the floor, hugh level beaurocrats who control how those laws get implemented, people who leave office to make bank and then come back as they please to follow through on backdoor deals that were made, the central banks who literally control the flow of money from the ground up.

These are your elites.

The myth of the top 1% was a narrative constructed to direct anger toward a group of people who by and large have no control over steering the national ship. They are affected by the winds of change as much as anyone else although they are more insulated from it because they have the means to withstand short bursts and storms here and there.

It was a narrative created to foment class warfare and further a socialist collective push at a time when the country was most vulnerable at a level not seen since the great depression.

Based on what I make I am in the top 1% but I can tell you emphatically that I am not an elite and I get knocked around and have been knocked around as much as anyone during the COVID thing.
Ag4life80
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To the OP, you do realize where the term t-sip came from don't you? This Aggie term was used to describe the elitists from tu who would go to their tea parties and pontificate about how the underclass should conduct themselves. They considered Aggies as inferior to themselves, as A&M was nothing but a bunch of farmers and deplorables.
Thus began what is now known as the Aggie Network. Screw those t-sips, we'll get it done without their arrogant asses, was the motivation.
peacedude
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An Ag tag means that you graduated from a university that is in the top 1% of the top 1% of all colleges and universities on Earth.

So, "Ag tag" is the answer the OP's question.
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