@Peter_Turchin /2
Turchin notes that there are more wealthy people today as a proportion of the population today, relative to decades past /3
And the number of influential positions in universities, media, and other elite organs is limited /5
For aspirational elites, money is less important than brand name colleges /7
The acceptance rate for the University of Chicago in 2005 was 40.3 percent. Today it is 5.9 percent /8
When there are large numbers of frustrated elite aspirants—what Turchin refers to as elite overproduction—intra-elite competition intensifies /9
But there are always more elite aspirants than powerful positions. This gives rise to frustration among would-be elites /11
They lead rebellion movements /13
They were not nearly the poorest of their societies. Far from it /14
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