Overdrawn at the Gravitas BankYes, it's bad and untoward to talk down to people less educated than you either from lack of opportunity or other bad luck—I hear there are families in which education is actually derided—but isn't it even worse to snigger behind your hand because the great masses of people don't know that you've named your current grift after an autocratic oligarch?
The Doge was the wealthiest and most powerful man in Venice, officially elected by the other wealthy but really a dictator.