Justin's Page

"But in among all this terrible poverty there were just
a few great big beautiful houses that were lived in by rich men
who had as many as thirty servants to look after them. These
rich men were called capitalists. They were fat, ugly men with
wicked faces, like the one in the picture on the opposite page.
You can see that he is dressed in a long black coat which was
called a frock coat, and a queer, shiny hat shaped like a
stovepipe, which was called a top hat. This was the uniform of
the capitalists, and no one else was allowed to wear it.
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone
else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses,
all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them
they could throw them into prison, or they could take his job
away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his
cap and address him as 'Sir'. The chief of all the capitalists
was called the King."

-Orwell