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Originally Posted by Pornwolf
Those people you speak of are becoming less and less important every year. Once upon a time they kept control of the money. All the big companies were run by them and their offspring. One look at the fortune 500 will tell you that's no longer the case. The ones that are on there have nothing (real) to do with business and that's diminishing their influence. Personal money influences little, how much money you can put into other people's hands IS the influential lifeblood of those familes. Running the family company allows you to do that on a large scale. But, as I said, the kids aren't continuing the tradition.
I wouldn't be too amazed by them. The NY social circut has them but it's been infiltrated by everyone else. They still have some very uninteresting events together but places like The Hamptons and Martha's Vineyard have plenty of the "others" nowadays. Their kids hold very little clout... again, because the parents are holding less business clout than ever before.
The only place where the Society kids still matter is the UK. They still have a King and Queen over there so that tells ya how much they value that little network and way of life. Ever read Tatler? Pasty, inbred and unattractive... but still "fabulous" in their own way. It's an interesting thing to watch.
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The only Tatler article I ever read was the edition where Nicole Richie was on the cover, I didn't know Tatler was a magazine about the priviliged uper class in Britain though. I only read that article from a scan on-line I never really read the full magazine.
Yea, I also heard class is much more pronounced in England, and that you can tell someone's class from their accent and the area they were born in. And Monaco still has royalty too, like that Charlotte Casiraghi girl...
I like to imagine I am upper-middle class but I don't even think I am.... I'm probably middle... My family doesn't have "real wealth" nowadays, even though everyone is well-educated, we have a lot of professionals in the family like doctors and such but they aren't really wealthy though. My father used to be a diplomat for the embassy over 30 years ago, I wonder if that makes more more high class???
