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Re:No, You can't retire rich at 30 if you sell your startup by barry-cotter on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @05:27AM (#1629360)
Most of today's middle class is descended from the kings and nobility of the high middle ages.

Not true for Britain. The peasantry did mostly die out but the nobility did very badly as well. The middle classes were the forefathers. Sources etc. in "Farewell to Alms" by Gregory Clark

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