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You do realize Trump belongs to that very same group of rich-by-inheritance that you're contrasting him with, right?

If we didn't have the system of inter-generational wealth transfer that you're defending, Trump very likely wouldn't be president right now.

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President or PM is likely the arena where you need to “have it all”, including aristocratic fluency, and it’s remarkable to any culture when that isn’t the case. It’s a similar argument to why the US should let Harvard be Harvard.

I'm sure you're not arguing a return to medieval feudalism, where an elite few control everything, but then again, I'm not sure what you're arguing

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