High death duties (Inheritance Tax) have resulted in a
substantial amount of UC families losing their family
seats and experiencing downward social mobility.
Danger of being assimilated in the upper middle-class??
The top 1% own about one-third of the country's wealth
Wealthy families not individuals!
Scott (1982)
There now exists a unified
propertied class -actively
using its wealth to maintain its
privileged position at the top of
the socio-economic structure.