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[quote=Anonymous]Baudrillard might call this scandal a simulation effect, right? Pretending it’s a scandal that the system is rigged and breaks in favor of the powerful who can pay to play masks the fact that in fact it’s biz as usual. The guy at the center set it up as a fake charity so the parents’ payments to him would be tax deductible... these are all practices from the .1% playbook. Anthropologist Laura Nadar’s essay “Studying Up” about how wealthy people hold on to their cultural/capital in part by not allowing anyone to know their culture or cultural practices (hard for anthros and sociologists to study the wealthy) feels so relevant. This is a less subtle version of what has been happening for years. Endow a building football stadium and library and your grand/kids get in. And you seem magnanimous. But this, too, is cheating.[/quote]
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