In China's long-settled and densely populated regions, degree holders who confronted the prospect of downward mobility for their sons were profoundly disturbed by the circumstances that permitted wealthy merchants to mimic their way of life.
These super PACs exist basically for one purpose: they serve as vehicles to eviscerate candidate contribution limits by permitting wealthy individuals, corporations and other moneyed interests to give unlimited contributions to directly support the candidate.
In basic everyday language, they explain how high interest rates have helped devalue the local currency, raising prices for their produce and permitting wealthier countries to import the same products and sell them more cheaply.
AMONG the growing number of hard-up European governments offering residence permits to wealthy non-Europeans who invest in their countries, Portugal has been the most successful.
One critic of the Federalists received an 18-month sentence for writing that the government permitted the wealthy to gain at the expense of ordinary people.
A globalisation that permits the wealthy to pass effortlessly through borders confines the poor to eroded subsistence, overfished waters and an impoverishment that seems to have no end.
South Africa earns substantial revenues from selling permits to wealthy foreigners willing to pay thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars to hunt one of the "big five" (lion, leopard, elephant, rhino or buffalo).
Portugal has passed a decree to resume its so-called "golden visa" scheme — a program that issues residence permits to wealthy foreign investors — after it was suspended a few days earlier following a corruption scandal.
When Lord Falconer first proposed the Assisted Dying Bill in July, he said that the current legal situation permitted the wealthy to travel abroad, while others were left "in despair" and facing "a lonely, cruel death".
He is also accused of creating a special category of professional reserves as a shell to raise money for his political war chest, issuing badges and gun permits to wealthy professionals who were recruited into the ranks.
