>Because it wasn't your father, it was your...how many generations are there between us and the middle ages, again? This is a time jump in the article itself:

>Because it wasn't your father, it was your...how many generations are there between us and the middle ages, again? This is a time jump in the article itself: Does it really matter if the Duke of Westminster got his land because his father fought a war or because his great^10 father fought a war? The 'moral argument' for society granting him billionaire status is still based entirely upon a past war and primogeniture. >Moreover, the UK has been a democracy for quite some time now Democracy isn't binary, it's a continuum. The media is largely owned by elites and until recently, the internal party political machinery of the two major parties were too. The Duke of Westminster's wealth wasn't stripped because British citizens really wanted him to keep it. He got to keep it because it wasn't seen as a fight worth starting to take it back.