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LARPer here, no actually I completely agree with your statements, old aristocracy is dead, probably was killed in the muddy fields of WW1.

New aristocracy, is a bit of a reach, but I'll allow it for discussion purposes. A CS degree is important to start with, but I think only so far as you yourself can become a means of production. Apologies for borrowing the term from Marx, but I do mean it in the same sense. You can be the factory, the workforce, and the management of the production of your own ideas. Anything else that allows you to accomplish this underlying goal then would be "New aristocracy" material.

The underlying goal is best said as "captain of my fate/master of my soul".

But then again, this is not aristocracy, at least in my meaning, or the general metaphysics of historical meaning either.

Back to "allowing" the phrase, new aristocracy. Here's the thing, there is undeniably a misrepresentation of what aristocracy actually means. And this is a gap in everyone's understanding of the term (mine included). As this is something that none of us have lived, we have only read about it.

Was New Coke really Coke? Or was it something else entirely? The brand was the same but the taste was not.