• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There’s always been a 2-tier system, through all nations and all times.

    One of my favorite parts of Noble House, set in 1840s Hong Kong, was a Chinese guy disgusted with the English notion of “equal under the law”. “Of course there are different laws for the rich and poor! Why else would I strive to be rich?!”

    I think on that now and again.

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      6 months ago

      I tried many, many times to read Noble House, but it was too long for me to get through it.

      Anywho, if I remember, wasn’t it set in the twentieth century?