This article is a reaction paper to the article in this journal issue entitled Human Service Cartels: The Soft Repression of the Mediocracy by David Stoesz. As such, it addresses two significant questions about the Stoesz article. One question is as follows: Are we really talking about a cartel? The other question is as follows: Isn’t it the power elite that promotes societal control and repression?

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是人类服务卡特尔还是推动社会控制和镇压的权力精英？对 David Stoesz 的人类服务卡特尔文章的反应

本文是对David Stoesz在本期刊上发表的题为《人类服务卡特尔：对平庸的软压制》( Human Service Cartels: The Soft Repression of the Mediocracy ) 的反应论文。因此，它解决了关于 Stoesz 文章的两个重要问题。一个问题如下：我们真的在谈论卡特尔吗？另一个问题是：推动社会控制和镇压的不是权力精英吗？