As the festival season gets into full swing, Finance Mole takes momentary leave of his senses and takes a bunch of colleagues to Glastonbury. It's all peace, love and music heaven until someone mentions big business and worse still, the role of accountants
The thing to remember is that these people want the same society as you, they just see a different way of getting there. Remind me what you’re not going to do?’
‘Start a conversation with hippies about why capitalism has proved the most effective method of organisation in ensuring the happiness of the greatest number of people.’
‘And what else are you not going to mention?’
‘That capitalism is merely the economic form of human nature. That if you shipwrecked a group of people on an island, a rudimentary bartering system would soon develop and eventually, if left long enough a full-scale capitalist society would emerge.’
‘Why are we here?’
‘Because we need a shower and we don’t want to queue for two hours and as yet the ICAEW does not have a shower tent.’
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