There will always be an England….
so long as there is someone to worry about “class”….not good-taste-class but where-do-I-fit-in-class.
I’m not sure I have this right but apparently the BBC is doing some major overhaul of class structure….deciding just who is upper and who is not. It prompted a very British rumination by one journalist (and clearly journalists are not “upper”):
Actually, having spent quite a bit of time in England, my experience has been that most people don’t have any time for this any longer….except perhaps for the newly-rich.
But it also reminds me of something I read awhile back: that up until World War II in the United States, family farm income was equal to a doctor’s pay. The farmer may be forgiven for concluding that working harder and being more productive doesn’t necessarily equal compensation.