Discredited moneyed hereditary class

Visualization of narrower problems
Name(s): 
Traditional elitist land ownership
Privileged families
Reappearance of the aristocracy
Elitist control of property
Incidence 
In the UK in the 1880s, 75% of the country was owned by 7,000 people, with a quarter of England and Wales in the hands of 710 of them. Half of the Scottish Highlands was owned by 15 lairds. In the 1970s a survey showed that of 500 families covered by the earlier survey, 52% still owned some of the land they possessed in the 1880s.
Claim 
The presence of so called old boy network of distinguished families do not only enrich schools, colleges, and regiments; these ancestral connections also enrich trade unions, businesses, and indeed all human organizations and countries.
Type 
(D) Detailed problems