{"id":253649,"date":"2024-02-05T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=253649"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:05:55","slug":"the-transnational-capitalist-class-the-billionaires-the-trillionaires-stake-holder-capitalism-and-the-new-world-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/02\/the-transnational-capitalist-class-the-billionaires-the-trillionaires-stake-holder-capitalism-and-the-new-world-order\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transnational Capitalist Class. The Billionaires, the Trillionaires. \u201cStake Holder Capitalism\u201d and the New World Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

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21 Jan 2024 – In 2011, the Great British Class Survey<\/a> was conducted, in collaboration with academics from the University of Manchester, the London School of Economics, and the University of York. The British have always been obsessed with class, so it is not surprising that British academics would attempt something of this nature.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The survey polled 161,400 people, and in a fit of obviousness, they concluded,<\/p>\n

\u201cWe demonstrate the existence of an \u2018elite\u2019, whose wealth separates them from an established middle class.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They also concluded that class distinctions had broadened into a multitude of seven classes. This is an expansion of the Marxist model of class division of capitalists and workers that has dominated academic circles for at least a hundred years.<\/p>\n

According to Karl Marx:<\/p>\n

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  1. Capitalist bourgeoisie \u2014<\/strong> If you control the means of production this is you.<\/li>\n
  2. Worker \u2014 <\/strong>Oppressed and exploited proletariat with no control of the means of production. Sells his or her labor for profit.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The survey included \u201cunusually detailed questions based on social, cultural and economic capital.\u201d<\/p>\n

    For the economic capital<\/strong> section, the survey asks how much money you make and how much money you have in the bank, plus the value of your house.<\/p>\n

    Secondly, to determine your cultural capital,<\/strong> it asks what kind of cultural activities you participate in. This is based on high brow culture<\/em>\u2014preference for interests such as classical music, historic architecture, museums, art galleries, jazz, theatre and French restaurants. And the other, for emergent culture\u2014<\/em>appreciation and participation in such activities as video games, social networking, sports, hanging out with friends, working out at the gym, and rap or rock concerts.<\/p>\n

    Thirdly, social capital<\/strong> was measured using the position generator originated by Nan Lin<\/a>, an American sociologist, in 2001, which measures the range of social connections. People were asked if they knew anyone in several dozen occupations.<\/p>\n

    Seven Classes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    The study found there are seven distinct classes:<\/p>\n

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    1. a wealthy elite<\/strong><\/li>\n
    2. a prosperous salaried middle class<\/strong> consisting of professionals and managers<\/li>\n
    3. a class of technical experts<\/strong><\/li>\n
    4. a class of new affluent workers<\/strong><\/li>\n
    5. an aging traditional working class<\/strong><\/li>\n
    6. a \u2018<\/strong>precariat<\/strong><\/a>\u2018<\/strong> characterized by very low levels of capital and ongoing precarious economic insecurity<\/li>\n
    7. a group of emergent service workers<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      This is an incomplete list in my humble opinion, because it fails to mention the homeless who are a separate class of non-persons, comparable to the Dalit<\/a>\u00a0caste in India. Homeless people have virtually no rights and squeeze out a fragile existence as urban nomads.<\/p>\n

      The most interesting group #7, the precariat,<\/em> are the working poor who often fall into homelessness, when things go sideways in the economy or in their personal lives. The word precariat<\/em> is a neologism of the words precarious<\/em> and proletariat<\/em>, coined by economist, Guy Standing, in his book, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

      The survey claims that the Elite class has a \u201cmean household income of \u00a389k (152K CDN), almost double that of the next highest class, and the average house price is \u00a3325k (556k CDN), considerably higher than any other class.<\/em>\u201d However, this elite class is only the upper middle class. The real elites make far more money than a meagre \u00a389k <\/em>per year. Many of them make that much in a day.<\/p>\n

      Other sociologists have gone further to sub-divide the wealthy into several categories:<\/p>\n

      Millionaires or <\/strong>High-Net-Worth Individual<\/strong><\/a> (HNWI)<\/strong> \u2013 those with $1 million or greater in investible assets. There are approximately 15 million HNWIs in the world according to the World\u2019s Wealthiest Cities Report 2023<\/a> by Henley & Partners.<\/p>\n

      Multimillionaires or Ultra-High-Net-Worth-Individuals (UHNWI)<\/strong> \u2013 those with $30 million or greater net worth. There are 211,275 UHNW individuals in the world, with a total combined net worth of US$29.7 trillion.<\/p>\n

      Billionaires<\/strong> \u2013 According to Forbes<\/a>, there are 2,640 billionaires in the world who are collectively worth about $12 trillion. The number of billionaires has been doubling every 10 years. In 2013, there were 1426 billionaires, worth $5.5 trillion. In 2003, there were 476 billionaires worth just $1.4 trillion.<\/p>\n

      TO READ FULL TEXT WITH GRAPHS AND TABLES Go to Original – globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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