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Meanwhile Europe still has an aristocracy but we will ignore that and fret about the unlikely chance that America will develop one.
by happyscrappy 12y ago
Meanwhile Europe still has an aristocracy but we will ignore that and fret about the unlikely chance that America will develop one.
- talideon 12y agoLast time I looked, Europe had more republics than monarchies...
- benmathes 12y agoaristocracy != monarchy.
- talideon 12y agoSure, but they do happen to coincide in general.
- dnautics 12y agoand in france almost all of the high level bureaucrats and politicians come from the same school (ecole sciences po)
- EliRivers 12y agoWhich appears to have a remarkably wide intake, striving not to be simply a place that rich French aristocrats send their children. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/world/europe/05iht-educLede05.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/world/europe/05iht-educLed... Bravo.
- dnautics 12y agoThe diversity initiative makes up 10% of the class? That's laughably low, compared to say UC Berkeley, or even the ivies in the US.
- venomsnake 12y agoThe aristocracy in Europe was devastated after WWI&II. And their power was in land ownership. And the massive capital destruction was ... lets say very high inheritance tax.
- charlesdm 12y agoWhy do assume that high inheritance tax resulted in massive capital destruction for the aristocracy? In most jurisdictions it's not exactly hard to transfer assets into companies/foundations/trusts/etc to avoid it.
- venomsnake 12y agoYou got it the opposite. If you owned the majority of Dresden ... when the allies ended their jolly fun there - there was not much left for your kids to inherit.
- charlesdm 12y agoOh, that way. I was thinking more of British aristocracy