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These are sophisticated power and wealth structures that are adept at keeping and growing their wealth and power intact over tens of generations. The more weal
by throw2016 9y ago
These are sophisticated power and wealth structures that are adept at keeping and growing their wealth and power intact over tens of generations.
The more wealth you have the more potential impact you have whatever the system, and feudal power structures like the UK which were never broken unlike say China and Russia with land reform have strong historical and real world ties to power.
Beneficiaries will obviously justify or diminish its impact, and those not doing well in the current system will direct their anger and frustration here.
Land is the source of wealth and power and is finite. These are generational conflicts as societies figure out the best way to manage their assets and resources. The aristocracy is simply self interested like all of us in doing their best to retain what they have accumulated.
Capitalism has not solved or addressed inheritance, its a nod nod wink wink kind of thing, and claims of equality and the level playing field while loudly made do not hold up the slightest in the real world we live in.
- maxxxxx 9y agoIn Germany nobility is not as much in the public eye as in Britain but when you read the news I am always surprised how many of them are still there with enormous wealth.
- lvkleist 9y agoOnly the ones in the west. Most of the Prussian aristocrats who owned land in what became western Poland or the German Democratic Republic were disowned and fled/were killed.