> The aristocrats and oligarchs of the olden days might have been corrupt, debauched and half-useless, but at least they knew it. You out of your mind? What co

> The aristocrats and oligarchs of the olden days might have been corrupt, debauched and half-useless, but at least they knew it. You out of your mind? What could possibly make you say "they knew it"? The amount of people rich-by-inheritance who are selling their bootstraps stories is stupidly high, and a lot of them believe it. One famous example got banned from twitter a couple months ago.