Comment by xg15
1 day ago
> "The Sovereign Individual" by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg.
Lord William Rees-Mogg being the father of Jacob Rees-Mogg, of Brexit fame.
Interesting how often you meet the same people if you just start digging a little.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sovereign_Individual : 1997, since I had to check.
> Interesting how often you meet the same people if you just start digging a little.
Endemic problem in UK politics, and a lot of other countries.
I think it's lost on people outside of the UK - perhaps even to many inside the UK - just how strongly there is a class divide and a ruling elite. The old money is very old indeed
Indeed. You are literally likely to be in a better social class today if your ancestors were Normans conquerors rather than the Anglo-Saxon conquered.
https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/60593/1/__lse.ac.uk_storage_LIBRAR...
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That's how and why they get published. Little names don't get in there. I haven't read the book so can't judge the content.
This is the book that introduced the idea of disaster capitalism - how to profit from other people's misery.
Formerly known as opportunism.