W's transcript

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Mar 7 11:20:39 PST 2003


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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