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The Almighty Buck Idle

Your Surname Tells How Rich You Are 1

An anonymous reader writes "Research (Pdf) shows that the descendants of people who in 1858 had 'rich' surnames such as Mandeville, Percy and Darcy, indicating they were descended from the French nobility, are still substantially wealthier in 2011 than those with traditionally 'poor' or artisanal surnames."
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Your Surname Tells How Rich You Are

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It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

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