Success in America appears to have gotten redefined as living off capital gains
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Lady Bracknell: As a matter of form, Mr. Worthing, I had better ask you if Miss Cardew has any little fortune?
Jack: Oh! about £130,000 in the Funds. That is all. Goodbye, Lady Bracknell. So pleased to have seen you.
Lady Bracknell: [Sitting down again] A moment, Mr. Worthing.
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well. maybe re-expressed. it was always defined that way, it just wasn't so openly asserted. the last big succeeders who weren't capital gains winners or their heirs were the robber barons of the gilded age.
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