Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-65.29.225.205-20130427160705/@comment-6134883-20130506185957

My point was that while there are always rich folks WHO those rich folks are changes over several generations; ditto with upper and middle class. DO NOT try and tell a woman whose great grandfather worked in a shopfront tailoring establishment on the lower eastside that there is no such thing as social mobility in the United States.

Hannibal got to Italy, he crushed the Roman army at Cannae but guess who won the war - and went on to rule the known world five centuries thereafter not to mention leaving a permanent legacy of architecture, law, personal rights and even indoor plumbing.

Byzantium survived when the Western Empire fell c. 450 AD. Constantinople finally fell in the fifteenth century. A thousand years... not bad.

The Brits managed to conquer a huge hunk of the planet with an aristocratic government and an army officered by upper class twits who bought their commissions. Enough of said twits turned out to be decent officers to win wars.