I see the monarchy as a technical debt from experimenting with government models. We ended up something similar to a presidency but also left withe a symbolic head of state.
Because cost of removing the technical debt is bigger than the cost of living with it, we just ignore it.
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I see the monarchy as a technical debt from experimenting with government models. We ended up something similar to a presidency but also left withe a symbolic head of state.
Because cost of removing the technical debt is bigger than the cost of living with it, we just ignore it.
For what it's worth, the UK government currently makes a healthy profit from the Royal Family.
http://relentlesslife.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/the-true-cost...
In video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw