''One of the most powerful images of the protests that the farmers made in London was the coats that the people were wearing. ...I'm told a thousand pounds a pop is quite likely. They were very expensive, oil Barbours, or the equivalent. And these people are claiming they're making twenty thousand a year but can wear the sort of garment that, frankly, most of us cannot imagine buying. "
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The wealthy think they’re different
The wealthy do – as author F. Scott Fitzgerald noted a century ago - think they’re different to us. The recent farmers’ protests proved that. Despite their wealth, farmers claimed impoverishment and demanded favours and subsidies from the state.Funding the Future
