W's transcript

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 10:27 AM -0800 3/7/03, joanna bujes wrote:
>>  >Why would you need any degree, though, if you were rich beyond measure?
>
>You need a degree because you need to make it look like you deserve 
>your privileges, wealth, and power. It can't just look like "them 
>that's got shall have"; it has to look like the best rise to the 
>top. It needs to look like that so that the working class can 
>continue to see themselves as losers who deserve to be losers.

If you choose a very public life like W, yes, but few ruling-class 
individuals do.  Professional politicians generally come from the 
strata well below the richest of the rich.  The lives of the richest 
of the rich, aside from Bill Gates, are generally invisible to us.
-- 
Yoshie

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