"Devine, James" wrote: > > > I think that rich people are taught how to behave: for example, they go to > Phillips Exeter or some other prep school to learn "never to dip into > capital" and to live off income instead. >
My acquaintances and friends at Tigertown in the mid 1970s who had gone to that sort of place learned no such useful things. They learned a little Latin and a lot about exotic drugs and which girls' prep schools had easy scores.
jks
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