On March 22, Gil Smart writes “Yet there was a time when elitism was clearly understood in the manner Black suggests- the economic elite who, the suspicion went, gamed to the system to their benefit.”
WATCHDOG: Lancaster is a microcosm of how, over the past decade, a powerful economic elite has worked behind the scenes to manipulate the government and news media to enhance their wealth at the expense of the tax payers.
You don’t belong to the economic elite by simply being rich. To qualify for club membership, you either have to be avariciously greedy… or a dupe.