Robert thanks for your response.

I am not a regular reader of the Economist, so am probably not aware of the articles you refer to.

But I trust you can see the simple logic of assigning all human debt to be paid off by solar energy.

My own vocation is an Engineer.

I would list qualifications, but that would be typically characteristic of educated elitism.

I think it is easier to describe the educated elite by characteristic and effect, rather than by names, since everyone in it has the possibility to change, and there is no telling where anyone is at in their minds, unless they announce it themselves, which in a way would be a kind of commitment.

To me, educated elitism is structural. It is practiced wittingly or unwittingly by folks through choice, or by force of circumstances (“Do it, or get trampled”).

If we think about education as a kind of wealth, it adds directly to material wealth, and maybe then does not seem so orthogonal.

When we achieve wealth in formal education and material assets, in general we seem to go through a process of simplifying what the wealth actually comprises, the contributions made to it by historical events, including even the input of sunlight, so as to minimise those in our consciousness, in order that we can lay claim to our particular fortune, without having to credit all contributors, which after all would be a mammoth task.

Patents are a good example of when this has been done as an artifact.

Hence why I stopped maintaining those of mine.

The weirdest thing about educated elitism is that it appears to warp the logical thinking of even the cleverest of people in a way that they really struggle to see it, the farther they are embedded in it.

There appears to me to be great swathes of entire disciplines which are built on it, economics being one, politics being another, not entirely orthogonal.

I imagine if we are deeply embedded in such a discipline, it could be quite a strange feeling to realise our entire lives might have been spent in wasted effort, but that is not the case, since it was probably a vital part of the path humanity has had to take, to get where we are, and after things change to the state where educated elitism no longer has any effect, therefore no longer exists, we can be happy in the knowledge that our actual historical contributions to the wealth of humanity are no longer simplified and laid claim to by others in the future, but truly built on.