The difference between the new managerial elite and the old propertied elite defines the difference between a bourgeois culture that now survives only on the margins of industrial society and the new therapeutic culture of narcissism.
-Christopher Lasch
Agree! My wife, a former commercial banker and mergers and acquisitions director in Europe was active during the period of transition of control and power from founder/owners to that of the CEOs. She says the people of real power and wealth, the founders, were courteous, challenging and genuinely interested in the well being of the organization. The CEO’s she found to be culturally and intellectually shallow, ill mannered and seemingly uninterested the “wellness” of the business.
Nah, new boss same as the old boss
During the time between WWI and WWII my mother graduated from high school and worked for a short time for an old money family in Denver – people who entertained European aristocrats who were visiting the US. She said that the old school US families were gracious even to workers, while the newly rich were PITA(not her words) who ran around showing off their power and status.
Lasch wrote that 25 years ago and its only gotten worse. Look at what the nouveau riche think is classy today.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-oval-office-gold-2045930#slideshow/2608702
Yes he did, he was required reading in my Behavioral Science courses. He was insightful, intuitive, with strong preceptive ability to foresee our immediate future. He was an Historian and an adroit social critic.
I’ll take this shit over the last 4 years of shit.
Is This Shit, Jack shits nephew? Asking for a friend.
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