They have a soft paywall now: https://archive.ph/zDCqm
These elites’ wealth derives not from their salary—this is what separates them from even extremely prosperous members of the professional-managerial class, such as doctors and lawyers—but from their ownership of assets.
The Atlantic has gone tankie.
Patrick Wyman in general has pretty good analysis I find. He's a historian, and he has a great podcast series on the fall of Rome which I can highly recommend.
I wouldn't call that take tankie.
It’s a joke. Ask a dozen liberals what a tankie is and you’ll get a dozen conflicting answers. It’s just the new pejorative thought-terminating cliché, like “commie” or “pinko”.
The Atlantic has gone tankie.
What does this mean?
I mean they’ve identified the core difference between the proletariat/working class and the bourgeoisie/capitalist class. Namely that the bourgeoisie accumulate their wealth through their ownership of the means of production.
It's similar to Marxist analysis, and Marxists are always slandered as "tankies."