The times, they are a-changing. The balance of power in the perhaps eternal battle between the experts and the masses has been shifting starkly, even wildly, with the former losing and the latter gaining clout.
That’s been most visible in the series of announcements and selfies emanating from the gaudy precincts of Mar-a-Lago. The experts like to scoff at what they consider a poor man’s idea of how a rich man lives. Those more attuned to the masses can respond that the compound was built with money made from sales of breakfast cereal.
The most striking shift came this week on Tuesday, and not from Mar-a-Lago or snowbound Washington but from Silicon Valley, from a tech titan wearing an elbow-length sweater, a gold chain, and a watch supposedly worth $900,000, the proprietor of Meta and Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
Previously, Zuckerberg has been on the side of the…
