No one knows for certain whether the “tip of society” has become more pointed than ever in recent years and to what extent the nouveau riche and war profiteers snuggled up to the political elite In our society the elite are still quite successful at evading the attention of researchers. There is little concrete knowledge about how preserved the backbone […]

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