Don't they know how absurd and unedifying it is to see places such as Cardowan, Cumnock and Port Ellen associated with a bastion of unearned privilege and wealth through the political avarice of a few old grandees?
Still, I suspect this is what Meerkat is likely to become – a vehicle for unearned narcissism.
Her profound testimony tells you everything you need to know about how inequality and unearned privilege remain ingrained in Scottish society.
Every third person who tweets anything today has inexplicably taken on the persona of a fully annoying trendy vicar, dripping in unearned sanctimony as they tell you how, like, voting's really cool.
And how convenient to conclude that unearned emotion is an indulgence, because that's the only conclusion that would allow us to look away from Malala's story, or any front-page outrages: the doctor who considers drugs the only hope for children in failing schools; the Syrian refugee crisis.
Back when land was at the centre of the discipline his observations led him to the idea of a rent: an unearned windfall accruing to the owner of a scarce resource.Strained food supply would raise food prices, he reasoned, which would encourage landowners to bring ever more land under cultivation.
More than half live in London or the south-east of England.Mr Osborne's budget also sent some very un-Downton messages about the relative merits of earned income over unearned wealth.
As with aid, oil revenues and other unearned wealth, a flow of cash risks making recipients passive and dependent.
This combined with an economy over-regulated by lawyers who go on to politics—results in an unearned premium on legal wages.Three supply barriers bulk largest.
Two of Britain's most popular television dramas drool over unearned wealth: "Downton Abbey", first shown on ITV1 and now a hit on PBS, America's public-service broadcaster; and "Upstairs Downstairs", the second series of which is now on BBC1 .Upstairs Downstairs" has been accused of borrowing from "Downton Abbey"—unfairly, given that it evolved from a 1970s series.
But the global recession has since lightened government coffers and increased the popularity of taxes that appear to target chiefly the wealthy and unearned increases in property values.
