Kelvin's Ferret wrote:
Take anything Polly says with a pinch of salt, she's the archetypal champagne socialist. What she fails to acknowledge, either by design or righteous ignorance, is that the "right on" social causes she supports long ago got hijacked by commercially driven, rent seeking, policy entrepreneurs looking to develop revenue streams out of narratives of perpetual grievance and entitlement. Polly's fellow travellers have no interest in trying to resolve the issues they espouse, if any of their causes actually do improve they simply find an innovative new interpretation to justify ongoing rent seeking. The"whitewash" is no such thing, people have just wised up that even the self-proclaimed "good guys" are on the gravy train.
That's capitalism for you.
The theory about having ambition making some money is ok but, there has to be some social conscience that comes with it or, we wnd up with people being exploited by the greedy and needy.