Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class

A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism

Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers labor in a world of performative identity & virtue signaling, publicizing an ability to do ordinary things in fundamentally superior ways. Author Catherine Liu shows how the PMC stands in the way of social justice & economic redistribution by promoting meritocracy, philanthropy, & other self-serving operations to abet an individualist path to a better world.

Virtue Hoarders is an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste & consumption habits.

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