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I wish people would stop calling them elite. WTF are they so elite at? Born into a corporate family? Being a psychopath?
Having effectively unlimited resources and the unbreakable power and control over the rest of us that comes with it sounds pretty elite to me.
Aggrandises. Engrandise isn't a word.
And calling them elites is fine. For them it massages their collective ego for us it is a mocking statement.
You see the problem here though right? You're assuming limited capacity in others to acknowledge the world as itb really is and yet you can't even acknowledge that you used a made up word to convey an idea.
What makes you think you're smarter than the average person?
That's an entirely specious argument. You used a word that doesn't exist. Not because you're style grand explorer, making your way through culture by experimenting with language but because instead you're a pseudointellectual.
Wanker.
Your point was attacked only you're so egotistical that it doesn't register. And you're not smart, let alone smarter than me.
Yes, and yes.
They do think of themselves this way though. It's fact that many billionaires want to buy an island to make genetically "superior" children at. Even Jeffrey Epstein wanted to.
What's hilarious is the idea that somehow their genes are superior to everyone else's:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/jeffrey-epstein-eugenics.html