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The upper classes knew a good thing when they saw it & welcomed (middle classes) into the new public schools & married them to keep their stately homes from falling down.

BUT the 21stC hasn’t been kind to the middle classes

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In 25 years “top” public school fees have risen by 553% v average wage increase by 217%.

Oh well. They can go to state schools. Maybe a good thing.

Buying homes also rose by 538% in London.

Looks like the middle classes would need to be twice as rich to stay the same.
Of course all that oligarch money so welcomed by the City and by the Tories pushed up property prices and their children populated all those public schools, with helicopter landing and private drivers to get their pizzas, that the middle classes could no longer afford.
..oh. The banking crisis..

It wasn’t the salaries it was those bonus that most of us cannot get our heads around.

And the overdrafts and debts that none of us want to get our heads around.
...and all that money for lawyers and accountants helping rich people hiding loads of money off shore.

This doesn’t make happy reading.

We’ve taken a lot of dangerous paths almost without thinking where they would lead. All in pursuit of NOW.
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