Jiang proposes Mark Zuckerberg as a contemporary elite case study because Zuckerberg refused large buyout offers while Facebook's rise and later expansion into AI and VR looked unnaturally smooth to him.
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Elite Ascent
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"an elite today let's look at certain individuals in our timeline in our world and then figure out why they did what they did..."
"not a viable business because it's social media right what's to stop me from starting another Facebook and then having people gravitate towards that..."
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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