The term superculture has been coined to describe the international lifestyle of billionaires. Rapid increases in globalization and technology have allowed a very small class of people to travel between most nations in the World in extreme luxury and privacy. Communications advances also mean that a person with enough resources can manage multiple international deals with almost complete anonymity. A millionaire is a person who has a net worth or wealth of more than one million United States dollars, euros, UK pounds or units of a comparably valued currency. ... Globalization (or globalisation) is a term used to describe the changes in societies and the world economy that are the result of dramatically increased trade and cultural exchange. ... Technology (Gr. ... A luxury good is a good at the highest end of the market in terms of quality and price. ... Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to stop information about themselves from becoming known to people other than those they choose to give the information to. ... The term communications is used in a number of disciplines: Communications, also known as communication studies is the academic discipline which studies communication. ... Anonymity is the state of not being identifiable within a set, called the anonymity set. When referring to human beings, we say that a person is anonymous when the identity of that person is not known. ...

The term "superculture" arose in direct opposition to the term "subculture", which describes a group of people similarly hidden from mainstream view. The opposition in the terms lies in subcultures being coerced into hiding, while the superculture chooses to hide in order to protect its privileges. A related term to the "superculture" is the Top Out of Sight class described by Paul Fussell. In biology, a subculture in a population of a microorganism is when one microbe colony in such a population is transferred onto blank growth medium and allowed to freely reproduce. ... Paul Fussell (born 1924, Pasadena, California) is a cultural historian, professor emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania, and author of books on eighteenth-century English literature, World War II, and social class. ...