Comments on: There are worse things than tyranny of the middle class https://www.isegoria.net/2010/08/there-are-worse-things-than-tyranny-of-the-middle-class/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:48:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Borepatch https://www.isegoria.net/2010/08/there-are-worse-things-than-tyranny-of-the-middle-class/comment-page-1/#comment-12616 Borepatch Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:29:45 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=21433#comment-12616 The 51% isn’t stable. If you look at the difference between the (say) 40% and 60%, there’s not really that much difference. The 40% is as likely to associate himself with the 60% as with the 20%.

IOW, his political loyalty will be suspect. He’s a kulak.

Where the dynamics change is when people begin to thing that mobility is likely to be downwards, not upwards. There’s some hint that this is becoming more widespread, but the reaction is more likely to be rage and scorn at an incompetent elite as it is as the 60% guy.

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