Finance & economics | Inequality

Inherited wealth

The return of Bertie Wooster

|6 min read

By Buttonwood

WHILE Downton Abbey may be a popular TV series, not many people see it as a model for how society should function. The age of aristocracy, along with inherited wealth and privilege, are behind us; we are all meritocrats now.

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