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I think the point I am getting at is there is a group of people that largely descends from the British aristocracy that is extremely cliquish and has a large ma
by subsubzero 6y ago
I think the point I am getting at is there is a group of people that largely descends from the British aristocracy that is extremely cliquish and has a large majority of its members in positions of power.
My neighbors wife knew Eddie Redmayne and his brother(I think both went to Eton) and although she said they were nice, they were in a totally different world and only really associated with people who also went to Eton/had large trustfunds. In England you would never see people like Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs etc who came from middle class families move to the highest strata of society and be accepted by those in that highest strata.
I am by no means bashing England, I think the country is awesome and have family that lives there, I am just not keen on the stratified nature of its society.
- hcho 6y agoAnd yet British have James Dyson, Richard Branson and so on... Old money vs new miney strife is an age old thing and I can assure you none of the tech barons is rubbing shoulders with former barons let alone American gentry.
- gamblor956 6y agoWhile Jobs and Brin had middle-class upbringings, Musk's father was quite wealthy: he had a large and successful engineering business (South Africa's equivalent of Tutor-Perini, the multi-billion dollar construction company that built the ports of LA and Long Beach and much of its metro system among other projects) and was a millionaire before he was 30.