I do wonder if one of those reasons is that the general sentiment of the public is moving beyond contempt and towards sharp objects not dissimilar to how friends across the channel tended to handle things.

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incone123 3 days ago | parent [-]

I doubt wealthy people are afraid to shop at London galleries or auctions. There are street robberies but they target watches and phones, not so much antiques.

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boston_clone 3 days ago | parent [-]

Maybe my comment didn't capture the zeitgeist - it's not that they're afraid of robberies per se, but rather simply living as a wealthy individual in a society with massive inequalities of income has much more social pushback than say, twenty-five years ago.

	▲	incone123 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What do you think the social pushback would look like from the wealthy person's point of view? If you get chauffeured from your London home to your country house and all your social circle are in the same bracket then you won't encounter much of it. And their children might be following activists on social media but they'll still join the family heli-skiing trip to Canada.
	▲	freejazz 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Hasn't seemed to stop the rich at all