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		001sky on Dec 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang the "wealth" you accumulate at the top isn't money; it's prestige Exactly. The culture is 'presitige maximization', and it's ruthlessly pursued. TLDR: Man is a political animal

rockyleal on Dec 1, 2013 [–]

Pierre Bourdieu called it "cultural capital"

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