Greed is good.

Following on from some comments our great leader, Bozza said, then retracted, and his minions described as only joking, we have greed to than for the Oxford AZ vaccine. This is great news and I thought I’d have more to say about this. My overriding felling is of despair. Whereas my younger self would have been fooled in to the trickle-down economics of wealth creation and throwing poor people on to the fire of the economy for the greater good.

When you’re the one with money and/or power you can have the luxury of making those tough decisions that they are lucky enough to make. You’re a trailblazer, the winners, and life is tough for you. All you have is money and a feeling of earned entitlement to console yourself. And God forbid, you actually have your view ruined by poor people on the street!

Words are tough at the moment. They’ve failed me. I’m not a great charity worker, or someone who helps the community. The best I can do is try and look after myself. I’m probably greedy too. It’s just that I’m not that good at it. I blame my ancestors for not being successful at inheriting loads of cash on the backs of poor people. From what I understand, we were the poor people. Not the poorest, but poor enough, possibly to be aspirational. These can be the worst.

We used to be at one with nature. There was no choice. If we used too much of our resources in our area, we’d run out and starve. A log term strategy would keep us alive, until there was an act of God we hadn’t prayed hard enough to. Then we found we could steal other peoples’ things to make ourselves richer. We then found out that we could get people far away to work hard for us, to make some of us richer. Then we don’t see greed, we see ourselves as being smarter and being a “force for good” in the world.

This isn’t making me feel any better, but it is a mark in my little history on 24th March 2021. It’s mid-morning and perhaps I can manage something else by the end of the day. But based on previous events and lack of them, my hopes aren’t very high. I wish I’d been taught to be greedy when I was younger.