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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 How today’s wealthy present themselves differently A new book offers an engrossing but flawed takedown of Britain’s most privileged The Economist Culture 16 Sep, 2024 | 920 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ Sir peter daniell went to Eton College, a grand private school favoured by royals and the rich. He was not a strong pupil but was admitted to the University of Oxford in 1927 after his cousin had a quiet word with a college. Daniell had a “wonderful” time there, doing almost no work, then took a job in his father’s financial firm. Did he feel at all guilty about his gilded upbringing? Certainly not. Meritocratic ideas were “damned stupid”, he later said, and nepotism was harmless. Anybody expressing such views today would be laughed out of the room, including by other privileged people. In “Born to Rule”, Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman, two British academics, describe how their country’s elites have changed since
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