Virtue Hoarders

A polemical critique of the Professional Managerial Class and its habit of turning identity, taste, and consumption into moral status. It argues that performative virtue and meritocratic self-regard can work against social justice and economic redistribution while presenting themselves as progress.

Readers drawn to political argument and class criticism will find a forceful challenge to the habits and assumptions of elite professional culture. The focus stays on how moral language can be used to defend individual advantage, making the case for a harder look at who benefits when virtue becomes a marker of status.