Ode Aristocracy News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

It used to be to be a cab driver you had to know the city. in fact if you had to be a cab driver in london, you had to study for about a year and a half what is called the knowledge. once you got the knowledge, you could make a living and feed your family off of it. today, taxicabs are being pushed out by uber. the way in which uber works, a small number of incredibly hard working but incredibly privileged superskilled workers design-a gore ri algorithms and make drivers deskilled. all they do is pay the instructions on their cell phones. the drivers get paid almost nothing. the elite gets all...

The s.a.t.s. kids whose parents make over $200,000 a year score 250 points more than the other kids. it's no way people who go to ordinary schools can compete with that kind of education and training. >> are we better off with an aristocracy? >> i don't we're better offer an aristocracy, but we would be better off with a system that has less competition all the way to the top. you can imagine a system where you needed training to get good at what you need to do, the job that you wanted to do but not that you had to beat everybody else and always be the best. it's that push always to be the bes...

It's like the private sector showing leadership that the government thus far hasn't. that's my view. i want to know what you think. go to my websit website @smerconish.com. answer my question, will the private sector address our gun epidemic in a way that congress can or won't? >> up ahead, has the system of aristocracy to meritocracy, a system that see cass greated income equality, a yale professor says yes. and it's college football season. everybody is pumped. why this is mascot causing furor. because he's the notre dame fighting irish leprechaun, the only african-american one until histo...

Ode aristocracy, but it's not very good. >> you say that meritocracy describes or offers an explanation for the rise of nativism. of populism and even for president trump. there's a second of the book called the coming class war. will it get violent? >> i don't know whether it will get violent. but it is the case that meritocracy explains a lot of the resentment that working class and middle class people feel in the country today. what meritocracy does it creates a system that the middle class can't win and then blames individuals in the middle class by characterizing their exclusion from weal...