TIL insiders call the British monarchy the Firm
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It just struck me how utterly bizarre the British nobility is. Like an abacus running within the hypervisor of a modern computer or something. Sweet deal. Whole new meaning to “grandfathered in”.
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I’d be interested in an essay length financial/economic history of the nobility and how it got transformed and economically integrated into modernity, and how much the current kit has managed to establish stable control over. Isn’t like half of London owned by some duke?
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All I know is from fiction mentioning in passing how heavy taxes and death duties slowly led to estates being sold piecemeal to industrialists or turned into tourist attractions. So sounds like up to a point democracy managed to mostly tax the nobility into oblivion.
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Lol decolonization never happened in Britain apparently 😆
“According to a 2010 report for Country Life, a third of Britain’s land still belongs to the aristocracy... lists of major aristocratic landowners in 1872 and in 2001 remain remarkably similar.”
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This has to count as the greatest heist in history. Plantegenet’s r2 instead of Ocean’s 11.
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