Sarah Taber 3 days ago
Ok, so that's the thing!
The Bennets' income (2,000lbs/yr) put them in the top 0.2% of English society at the time. To do that in today's US, you'd have to make $20M/yr.
They were, in fact, kinda ludicrously wealthy!
And the inheritance structure wasn't as big a problem as people think it was!
add a skeleton here at some point