The “great” thing about England is that when these articles come out and you google the person who wrote them it’s not something boring like “their dad is a trust fund manager” it’s “their dad is a baron, their grandfather edited the newspaper this appears in, and their family founded the private Bank of England”
The wealthy have been griping about laziness in the lower classes since forever.
Turn the argument on its head:
"A generation that will never afford a home thanks to a rapacious 1%, has decided to work their designated hours at their designated pay level.
This is upsetting the leisure class that relied on labor exploitation to keep their wealth."
"Young people are refusing to work unpaid overtime like their parents did
We will label them 'lazy' until they agree to work for free again
The young can't afford homes or afford to start families, so our traditional methods of coercive capitalism isn't working like it used to
The #OccupyWallStreet generation never got launched into life with the help of their parents because the orchestration of the 2008 financial crash wiped out a generation's savings"
I HAD to look it up, and while she doesn't have a wikipedia page of her own she's mentioned on her dad's wiki page (Crispin Money-Coutts, 9th Baron Latymer).
The English establishment is beyond self-parody (even before you get to the likes of Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax).
Kinda reminds me of the time when I referred to the posh kids as cuckoos. Like when you hear Scot's barons going on about how they are Scottish with a cut glass English accent and you know they went to public school
@tanepiper@cstross@onepict@alex Ironically, it did, but the other way around. Crispin Money-Coutt's Great-great grandfather, Francis Money, was the son of the second daughter of the original Coutts, but complex will shenanigans precipitated by the first daughter marrying an American, which the will specifically ruled as cause for disinheritance (yes...) caused him to change his name by deed poll to Money-Coutts and inherit the wealth!
@tanepiper@cstross@onepict@alex This was considered a bit of a joke even at the time - Punch published a little poem about it "Money takes the name of Coutts,
Superfluous and funny
For everyone considers Coutts,
Synonymous with Money."
@onepict@tanepiper@cstross@alex it gets better - Queen Victoria herself apparently was moved to send a letter to the first daughter, Angela, asking her to think again about this "mad marriage" to an American...
@aoanla@onepict@cstross@alex You know I've been reading some older books, and America has not been liked for quite a while seems. True capitalism was born there as it's founding system of philosophy and everyone spotted it.
"They have three children: the journalist and novelist Sophia Money-Coutts, magician Drummond Money-Coutts, and another daughter, Rosie." also killed me. Oh, Rosie.
@BarneyDellar@cstross@onepict@alex In Poland, of the two leading politicians (who hate each other, but together represent right-wing establishment), one's first name is Donald, and the other's last name could plausibly be translated as Duck. Therefore, Poland has been ruled by a right-wing, corporate-loving Donald Duck for the last 20 years, which may seem funny, unless you live in Poland.
“Hello. Thanks awfully for coming to visit. I’m a British journalist and author, and I spend most of my time sitting at my kitchen table in South London, making cups of tea whenever I get stuck halfway through writing a sentence (this happens a LOT). Oh ok, sometimes I also have a biscuit. Or five biscuits. And a piece of toast and marmalade.”
The first bit to be fair could be any writer…but then:
‘I started out life, or grown-up life, anyway, as a journalist on the Evening Standard newspaper in London. There, I wrote about things like the maple syrup diet, doing four hours of cardio a day to exercise like Madonna, and accidentally travelling to Amsterdam on my brother’s passport.’
Just waltzed into a job at the Evening Standard…like you do, no hard yards on the locals.
Wikipedia: "Money-Coutts is a surname used by descendants of Francis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer. Notable holders of the surname include: Francis Money-Coutts ...
@onepict@alex It helps to know that Coutts bank used to hold British banking license 002 (001 was the Bank of England), customer number one was the Monarch, it takes a deposit on the order of a million quid to open an account there, and ... you get the picture.
> Has your “posh” name brought prejudice?Undoubtedly. My Dad advised me to change it when I went in to journalism, and now I wish I had. I’ve had to develop coping mechanisms.
> Like what?
Self-effacement. David Baddiel posted a photo of my book on Twitter, saying: “This can’t be a real person. She sounds like a character from Dickens.” I just replied “Real Person” and ignored the later comments.
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