The privileged class

People like Piketty focus on the top 1% or 0.1% but it is not clear the extent to which in a society where higher education is attained by 20% of the population this is still a useful model to understand political trends.

The privileged class is a concept that I have encounterd in Lasch's revolt of the elite (top 20% of income). I have a vague memory that Louis Maurin makes the same distinction in Encore Plus, and probably Emmanuel Todd in Après la démocracie.

TODO Why did Lasch choose to delineate this class?

TODO How is that model useful? (political trends)   w

TODO Where does it fail?

TODO Rr-read "Encore Plus !" de Louis Maurin

TODO Re-read "Après la démocratie" d'Emmanuel Todd

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