No One Gives A Sh*t What You Do For A Living

And if they do, or show that they do, they're the loser in the dynamic.

We are not very good of late at actually defining who or what an “elite” is, but we talk a good amount about “elitism” and “being controlled by elites” and the like. We have even had some (more nuanced) discussions about the overpopulation of elites, sometimes framed as white-collar vs. blue-collar and/or “Does everyone really need to go to college?”

I myself was raised by educated Upper East Side (Manhattan) liberals, or faux-liberals (I think my dad was probably 2-for-2 on Reagan), and I went to pretty-”elite” private schools and then Georgetown for college. At the broadest sense, it was drilled into me that certain types of jobs are “elite” and one should pursue those, and other jobs are somehow “beneath” you and they should be avoided.

At the time this worldview was being shaped,