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Welcome to the 1% Culture

Welcome to the 1% Culture

(It’s About to Get Much Worse)

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Eugene Rabkin
Nov 24, 2023
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In the past decade much hand-wringing has been done about economic inequality, with the proverbial 1% as a designated pariah. Much less has been said about an uncanny parallel happening in Western culture. For we are truly living in a world where a bunch of top performers in any cultural discipline rake in an unprecedented share of profits. Call it the …

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