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The self-indulgent idiocy of the capitalist class
SOLOMON HUGHES probes a court case involving one of Britain’s top corporate families that provides a cautionary lesson on the foolishness of the super-rich
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CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
WHAT goes on in company boardrooms? The pro-business position is that our company directors, made sharp and hungry through the cut and thrust of competition, are expertly directing money, people and resources.
But a recent court case suggests to me that our top directors act in a way that makes them seem like self-indulgent idiots. This appears to me to be “lifestyles of the rich and famous” played as a kind of tragicomedy.
Just before Christmas a court case involving one of Britain’s top corporate families surfaced in the press.
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