The Coming of Neo-Feudalism A Warning to the Global Middle Class [Audiobook]

Joel Kotkin, Traber Burns (Narrator), "The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class"
English | ASIN: B08GGBBD7M | 2020 | MP3@256 kbps | ~06:33:00 | 720 MB
Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last 70 years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging.
The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times. At the apex of the new order are two classes - a reborn clerical elite, the clerisy, which dominates the upper part of the professional ranks, universities, media, and culture, and a new aristocracy led by tech oligarchs with unprecedented wealth and growing control of information. These two classes correspond to the old French First and Second Estates.