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overclass

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o·ver·class  (vr-kls)
n.
The upper social stratum of society, composed of wealthy and professional people, especially when viewed as controlling society's economic power.


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In 1993, I handed over a manuscript of approximately 200 pages titled The Overclass, because that’s what I thought the big problem would be: the emergence of a self-regarding elite whose lack of moral and intellectual distinction was offset by wealth and the political clout that wealth could buy, a materially rapacious plutocracy answerable to no one.
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La Zona is a contemporary satirical thriller by director Rodrigo Plá, contrasting the poverty of modern Mexico with heavily fortified, gated communities for the wealthy overclass and their families.
 
 
 
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