I don’t know if I agree with the regular billionaires being any better (since the vast majority of those owe most if not all of their dragon hoards to privileges not available to regular people and are equally kept from ever losing it via laws that favor them over everyone else), but you’re ABSOLUTELY 100% spot on about the rest and I couldn’t agree more!
I’m sorry he’s ruining your mood, but being pissed off is ABSOLUTELY the most fitting reaction to both the concept and specifics of royalty somehow still existing in the 21st century.
I get you. I really do. But let me offer you some perspective. Monarchs are born into their role. They have no choice in the matter and are raised according to a blueprint of what a monarch shall be. They have no power, no voice, no vote.
I do get you. They don’t know strife or hardship. But for the love od me, I’d never would have wanted to be born as a crown prince.
Now lets talk about their appendages (brothers, sisters, offspring), who do get a lot of money for being born, they heve a vote, freedom, power and a voice. The aristocrasy is what is costing the tax payer a lot of monies.
Billionaires on the other hand chose to hoard and not to share.
Personally, I don’t mind a monarch, if they’d be paid at the same rate as government officers and only thw monarch. The rest of the family can go to work like normal people.
It’s even worse. They’ve built themselves a nice little business empire based on tax dodging: Taxes are collected “in the name of the king” by “his majesties” tax collectors and in that setup the king doesn’t have to pay taxes if he doesn’t want to. So they are totally raking in billions:
The sovereign has official ownership of the estate but is not involved with its management or administration; nor does the sovereign have personal control of its affairs
The revenues from these hereditary possessions have been placed by the monarch at the disposition of His Majesty’s Government in exchange for relief from the responsibility to fund the Civil Government.[9] These revenues proceed directly to His Majesty’s Treasury,
The Crown Estate is formally accountable to the Parliament of the United Kingdom,[12] where it is legally mandated to provide an annual report for the sovereign, a copy of which is forwarded to the House of Commons
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I don’t know if I agree with the regular billionaires being any better (since the vast majority of those owe most if not all of their dragon hoards to privileges not available to regular people and are equally kept from ever losing it via laws that favor them over everyone else), but you’re ABSOLUTELY 100% spot on about the rest and I couldn’t agree more!
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I’m sorry he’s ruining your mood, but being pissed off is ABSOLUTELY the most fitting reaction to both the concept and specifics of royalty somehow still existing in the 21st century.
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I get you. I really do. But let me offer you some perspective. Monarchs are born into their role. They have no choice in the matter and are raised according to a blueprint of what a monarch shall be. They have no power, no voice, no vote.
I do get you. They don’t know strife or hardship. But for the love od me, I’d never would have wanted to be born as a crown prince.
Now lets talk about their appendages (brothers, sisters, offspring), who do get a lot of money for being born, they heve a vote, freedom, power and a voice. The aristocrasy is what is costing the tax payer a lot of monies.
Billionaires on the other hand chose to hoard and not to share.
Personally, I don’t mind a monarch, if they’d be paid at the same rate as government officers and only thw monarch. The rest of the family can go to work like normal people.
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Wow let’s be 100% fair it’s hard having choices and opportunities and living up to be pompous but not seeming too pompous.
He’s DEFINITELY failing on that last part, though.
It’s even worse. They’ve built themselves a nice little business empire based on tax dodging: Taxes are collected “in the name of the king” by “his majesties” tax collectors and in that setup the king doesn’t have to pay taxes if he doesn’t want to. So they are totally raking in billions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estate
Read the full Wikipedia article.
You might want to read the Guardian on “the cost of the crown” about royal finances:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/series/cost-of-the-crown
Hey now. Have you tried not raping children for a week? I heard it’s not easy.