Only if you get too caught up in it all. My family, the Markers, was prestigious back in Europe and with all the effort my James and I put into the manor, my children and grandchildren can all live independently comfortable lives. It's climbers like the Reegans or people like the Brownlicks up north who tend to play politics more. Complaining year after year about beans in humans' diets or the birth rate, like they can change those things.