The upper class, who wants to keep you mired in it Yourself, as a result of what that environment does to youģ. If you come from poverty and chaos, you are up against 3 enemies:Ģ. Henderson, who came from a working-class background before attending Yale, blames the lack of social norms being enforced from above. For those in the top 20 percent of socioeconomic status, the rate has remained virtually unchanged.
Īmong white American males in the bottom 30 percent of socioeconomic status, the number of prison inmates per capita has quintupled since 1975.
Over the past half-century, the number of men per capita behind bars has more than quadrupled. This number has more than doubled since the 1970s. Today, one in six American men between the ages of 25 and 54 are unemployed or out of the workforce altogether: about 10 million men. But record numbers of men also do absolutely nothing, and this is hugely concentrated in the lower social classes. The same is no doubt true of employment where, especially in the US, many more work intense hours. We read lots about the huge increase in people with no friends, but I suspect that social media has made many others even more hyper-social. Far more people are very promiscuous, but far more are totally celibate. We live in an age of dispersion, meaning that most people behave in more extreme ways than they would have a few decades back. In the first round in the 6th arrondissement of Paris (the one that contains St-Germain-des-Près and all those cafés Hemingway drank in), she got 4% of the vote and finished sixth. In the very richest neighbourhoods, though, it is as if she doesn’t exist. She is the candidate, writes Fourquet, of people whose work involves repetitive tasks, bad smells, irregular hours and loud noises. īut, 60 kilometres outside of France’s cities, Marine is the most popular politician. Macron is the candidate of rich cities, beach towns, ski resorts and the “instagrammable” parts of France. Increasingly, the elite and the non-elite political tendencies have no more contact with one another than if they were living on isolated islands.
Much discussion of the presidential election has involved France’s “archipélisation”, after a concept developed by the political scientist Jérôme Fourquet. Marine Le Pen won 42% of the vote this time around and in UnHerd, Christopher Caldwell reflected on how French politics is class war. True, there is a certain darkness that hangs over France, a country with deep and lingering divisions and where the radical Right is closest to power of any western nation. The French are a mystery to us sitting in their gorgeous farmhouse in this earthly paradise of a country, blessed with incredible healthcare and generous pensions, drinking Premier Cru Bordeaux and eating the finest food known to man, with their heads in their hands feeling utter despair. I spent the first week of April in the most beautiful, and miserable, country on earth.
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