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Who is the most influential or most well paid Briton ? Its either the hedge fund manager, real estate monarchs from Central London or the old and established elite. No innovators or upstarts in there. The society has somehow chosen to value people fiddling with complex financial instruments or real estate power broking over the real productive individuals. The post does not mention, but the same thing unfolding in America ? (* Apart from Elon Musk *), the darlings of the American society are developers of cutesy social networks or subprime mortgage schemers... Even America feels very different than what it used to be at the height of competition with the Soviets.