• TawdryPorker@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        This is what people not from the UK (and a fair few who are) always fail to recognise: the Upper Class are engaged in economic war against everyone else, their goal is to maintain a local hegemony and they have been doing this continuously since at least the 11th Century.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      That’s something, I guess. Maybe we wouldn’t know specifically how he took advantage of it because the trades aren’t public record.