Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

As they say, with great power comes great responsibility.”
“Are you screwin’ with me, man?” Taylor asked bluntly.

Great power involves great responsibility

[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of who is and is not the nobility. As that starts to fall away, obligation--to culture, to the future, to each other--begins to disappear too.

The Global Financial Crisis (2008-?); it is not a matter of noblesse oblige as of vitesse oblige.