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Rich Like Me: How Assortative Mating Is Driving Income Inequality - Quillette

This is fascinating.

An American study, but look at our own political and monied classes. How they get it, keep it, grow it.

Johnson, REES-Mogg, Tice, Cameron, Odey, Hintze, quillette.com/2019/10/18/ric…

“His story dramatically illustrates the power of socialization: Almost everyone at the top schools comes from more or less equally affluent families, and almost everyone adopts more or less the same values and tastes. And such mutually indistinguishable people marry each other.”

“In other words, high-earning young American men who in the 1970s were just as likely to marry high-earning as low-earning young women now display an almost three-to- one preference in favor of high-earning women.”

“An even more dramatic change happened for women: the percentage of young high-earning women marrying young high-earning men increased from just under 13 percent to 26.4 percent, “

And then there are the children.

Interesting that the Brexit Party, that most American, Trummp, Bannon driven Party, is planning to abolish inheritance tax that affects under 5% of the population.

But the Flints and Champions of this world are today planning to play into the hands of these manipulators of inequality and their supercial lip service to “workers rights”.

“Yes, Gun’nor! Of course, Sir. Whatever you say, Sir”.