Extreme wealth is not independence. It is an unusually successful dependence upon everyone else.
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the strange ontology of power
Tag: власть
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status hierarchy: role-play
Perceived importance is simply the output function of an ongoing game of organisational status hierarchy, social roleplay and meritocratic make-believe.
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epistemic pyramid scheme
This is how a system built to produce knowledge becomes a system for reproducing the conditions under which its existing knowledge remains authoritative.
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