elites

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In July 2024, Rinderknecht demanded the chatbot generate an image that showed wealthy elites dining extravagantly on one side of a wall while the world burned beyond the barricade.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

It estimated that 66 percent of the around $5.5 billion generated by mining each year was controlled by political elites working in cahoots with organized crime through murky public-private "strategic alliances."

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

The yawning gap between the policy preferences of elites and those of rank-and-file blacks remains today, but it was just as obvious three decades ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Economists and financial elites are speaking out at industry forums about the war’s devastating effects.

From Slate • May 9, 2026

Rather, it translated into population explosions and pampered elites.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari