Results from elitism: Einstein, Voltaire, Newton, post-WWII growth, 600M people raised out of poverty in 20 years (China growth), Computers, and that fancy writing style you seem to enjoy based on unprecedented availability of education, electricity, and resources.

Hope you enjoy that warm meal you have and remember all those people who worked hard for you to get it, to include the brilliant inventors who are part of the elite class.

Capitalism has also shown its destructive side and vast inequity (globally).

Unfettered capitalism has shown itself to be morally depraved. Simply doubling down on it and treating it as an ideological absolute instead of questioning and adjusting is irresponsible to say the least. Unsustainable.

That piece has to do with population growth/control.

If anything, that piece somewhat supports what Gordon2352 was stating:

“With increased global transparency and participation, former traditional and anachronistic forms of elitism will fall to the wayside while a better informed and talented population will create alternatives that provide a greater benefit to humanity other than @nosolution’s version of an elitist, supreme self serving paycheck.”

To date, capitalism is better than anything else that has come along. Inevitably, a successful capitalist will gain wealth.

Physics is a difficult discipline to master, in general requiring many years of arduous university training. The chief motivation is curiosity, a desire to understand how the universe works, and often to contribute to human knowledge. A physicist can expect to make a good living, but nothing that would qualify him for the financial elite.

Some physicists have been corrupted from their high ideals of curiosity driven research and contributions to human understanding, and have applied their methods in the mundane financial business of making money and playing the markets. The financial industry managed to divert the physicists to their largely corrupt ways, seeking ever greater ways to remove the wealth of the nations to the hands of the few. How sad, a waste of human potential, and a destructive force within the world. I can see why such physicists would need to trade huge sums of money for the corruption of their youthful ideals.

In their defense, of course, many people are corrupted into largely unproductive enterprises such as junk food and junk medicine, false advertising, propaganda, spying on your neighbors, financial manipulations, and war making. It is hard to avoid, particularly in the US.

Wonder if the percentage of population in our jail system correlates to the elitist factors. Are they really criminals then – or just loosing the battle with our unfair judicial system.

If you look in their closet or review their morale compass – most any elitist would be in jail without the protection of our judicial system.

Our judicial system is the mostly highly protected area of the elites, however it does have Achilles Heels.

A concentrated focus on our judicial system would provide the biggest return on energy for making this a better place to live.

Elites are inevitable. Tax industrialists to subsidise farmers and the farmers become the new elite. Kill the Kulaks and the people who killed them become the new elite. Anyone in receipt of a subsidy always wields excessive political power (else they’d not have got the subsidy in the first place) and always thinks they need more, so any attempt to level the playing field by non-violent means just makes things worse than they were to begin with.

And by forcceful means? Read the classic science-fiction short story “Harrison Bergeron” and ask yourself if you’d like to live in such a world.