Arguments about normative changes needed in future societal scenarios

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Abstract

Re megalomania and neo liberal imperialisms, some of their social psychological roots, deriving and discerning maco norms from micro normative generating behaviors.....; That in especially post industrial societies, but also likely all societies, norms and especially sexual norms, tend to be functionally influenced by relative levels of occupation related economic security. So that socio economic related norms, differ in so far as economic levels of security vary by social class also varying depending on the sufficiency of national economic safety net mechanisms.

Status seemingly is being attributed considerably more than previously, to wealth and income alone. Rather than to wealth and income and other attainments, like intellectual or scientific or educational or artistic accomplishments. The working and precariat classes, arguably greater in demographic numbers than all of the members of the middle class and above, arguably as a result of the significant deskilling trends noted earlier by Harry Braverman and more recently by Daron Acemoglu, tend to revere great wealth as something which they seem to think “deserves to be in authority.” This trend likely also has stemmed from the failures of an “expert class” to deliver sufficient rewards and contextual understandings to the working and precariat classes and the bottom 60 or 70% of the earning spectrum distribution. Hence perhaps Donald Trump and his constituencies willingness to grant Elon Musk so much authority so far, even as it appears to be being used in demonstrably acutely dysfunctional ways.

Author

• David (Jed) D. Schwartz