[Arlo]
> The aristocracies of Medieval Europse were composed of often violent
>factions,
> that used all sorts of manners to "sink" other families.
You're mistaking the existence of factions (all fighting over who gets to rule
by divine right),
for diversity within the ruling class. In the past, classes were "horizontal"
strata:
the lower class existed at a subsistance (or below) level; a small, middle
class & an upper
class of nobility/clergy. (The clergy often did not have offspring & relied on
a junior son
of the nobility for continuity.) There was little mobility.
Nowdays the strata are more "vertical": billionaire George Soros is more
likely to forge
an alliance with a labor union offical or an unemployed "social activist" than
with fellow
rich Mr. Coors. The latter is more likely to forge an alliance with a
self-employed person
trying to make it on his own or with a poor, fundamentalist Christian than with
Mr. Soros.
Time for new textbooks.
Craig
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