事实上，现代经济可能更类似于十九世纪（当时威斯敏斯特公爵和卡多根伯爵所拥有的土地只不过是西伦敦的荒地 ） ， 而不是大部分发达国家公民所成长起来的中产阶级社会。
Indeed, the modern economy may resemble that of the eighteenth century, when the land owned by the Duke of Westminster and the Earl of Cadogan was still just fields to the west of London, more than the middle-class societies in which most developed countries’ citizens’ grew up.