The landed gentry consists of people who do very little actual work themselves but who derive their income from the labour of others who are generally kept poor enough to keep them in line, even though they are working land that was stolen from the ordinary people by the ancestors of the gentry in question. On the surface of it, that may appear to work smoothly and quite well, but the principle (or lack of principle) behind it is one of exploitation by inherited wealth. Completely acceptable to the expedient, self-serving right. Slightly more indigestible to us on the loony left. I'll pick my side on the basis of morality if you don't mind.