If you look at the motivations of the Milner Group, read Quigley's book, you see that these people were not motivated, at all, ever, by money.
Of course they, mostly, came from privilege, but that, for them, was a given.
That is what you call a service aristocracy.
One of the really big big things the colonists repudiated, as Bailyn noted many times, and have lacked, from the beginning, and forever after, was an aristocracy, and I would add, a service aristocracy.
This fact, that they, the Milner Group, as a group had little economic or financial sense, had tragic consequences, but that is another story here.
Maybe Lord Rothschild is a special case, but his financial activities, connected with the group, are hardly discussed by Quigley.
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