On: Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich

[forensic]

>Entrenched aristocracies happen when you have old money that looks down on the "nouveau riche".

That's not the cause of aristocracy, that's the effect.

[philwelch → forensic]

It's neither. It's just part of the aristocracy (the other part being the willingness of the rest of society to humor old money in their self-perception as being aristocratic).