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When was this golden age when an inherited elite created a more equal society out of noblesse oblige?
The Gilded Age?
The Victorian Era?
The Gilded Age?
The Victorian Era?
Or should we go back further? The Baroque Period? The Middle Ages?
When was the golden age of noblesse oblige-driven egalitarianism?
When was the golden age of noblesse oblige-driven egalitarianism?
The idea that an inherited elite felt more noblesse oblige comes up a lot on alt-right blogs, who typically argue that Jews replacing WASPs in elite positions was what screwed over the white working class.
Now, of course, it's being repurposed as an argument against skilled immigration.
Noblesse oblige is a real phenomenon, and some individuals clearly have a lot of it.
But if you want to claim that people who reached their position via "meritocracy" feel less noblesse oblige, I want to see evidence.
So far I've seen no evidence of this.
But if you want to claim that people who reached their position via "meritocracy" feel less noblesse oblige, I want to see evidence.
So far I've seen no evidence of this.
Big sweeping claims like "aristocrats care more about the poor than meritocrats" require lots of evidence to back them up.
If we don't insist on evidence, people will decide which theories to believe based on their prejudices.
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If we don't insist on evidence, people will decide which theories to believe based on their prejudices.
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