What Populism Can (and Can't) Do for the Left
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For the left to co-opt the right-identarians who are unwilling to come out as "class-warriors", they will have to go one step higher (or lower, depending on what kind of engineer you are) than economics and address national virtues.
This got a token in TFA when they talked about signalling, but amongst other divisive-yet-unifying virtues that hardly ever get a mention, "Hard-work" seems to be the most salient one. "Creativity" comes a close second. The gap between the 2 is 1 place where "capitalists" love to drive that wedge
(if one examines closely the thought leaders' -- or Hollywood celebrities' -- claims that their creativity comes from hard work they fall apart in all sorts of ways-- it's a seductive thought-killing-meme)
citing your proto-meme: "eudaimonia for engineers" (I suggest the slogan "hard work comes from creativity" rings the same bells) is a great counter-concept that deserves to be redesigned for the 99%. Iconify the guy who invented the SuperSoaker?