“But what shocked me – and has surprised the theatre – is the capacity of perfectly decent, liberal hipsters on London’s south bank to become ruthless capitalists when seated at the boardroom table.”
This clown has not been paying attention. All one has to do is look at the duplicist nature of the liberal mind. Rail against authority until you are the authority (politicians, government workers, professors, etc) then demand blind obedience. Rail against greed until you’ve got your hand on the carving knife and the biggest slice of the pie goes to you and yours. One needs only look at the Clintons to see the embodiment of “liberal principles” and the deranged pathology of their viewpoint. Back in the day these people were rightly called “snake oil salesmen” and would have been tarred and feathered as soon as they were seen for what they were. The problem lies in the fact that the rest of us have become too civilized.
The one business owner I knew who actually ran his business for the benefit of his employees and long-term success of his company was an actual Bircher. He was happy as long as he made a profit big enough to support him and his family in a surprisingly modest fashion. The company thrived and grew, his employees were all well paid and had great benefits.
His kids went to business school, ransacked the company, laid off people, cut salaries, maximized their short-term benefit and left the company a shell of what it had been. ...especially after the formerly happy, non-union workforce unionized.
Nothing decent about liberal hipsters.