I have known some rich people. They don’t act as a coordinated group almost ever; and the group they don’t form, is flatly not capable of accurately predicting and deliberately directing world-historical equilibria over centuries.
Beg to differ. Rich people congregate, populate, and settle in areas, and form orgs and egregore that push away and hide the poor and the problems that make them uncomfortable, and this happens largely unconsciously—phenomenologically—yet there is organizational agency in it. And this kind of wealth phenomena has certainly steered world-historical equilibria over centuries. My point is: it’s not a “conspiracy” of rich people, it’s a phenomenon of rich people, and I think you should include the phenomenology of wealthy populations in your modeling.
Beg to differ. Rich people congregate, populate, and settle in areas, and form orgs and egregore that push away and hide the poor and the problems that make them uncomfortable, and this happens largely unconsciously—phenomenologically—yet there is organizational agency in it. And this kind of wealth phenomena has certainly steered world-historical equilibria over centuries. My point is: it’s not a “conspiracy” of rich people, it’s a phenomenon of rich people, and I think you should include the phenomenology of wealthy populations in your modeling.