Since this is hard to do, a difficult business of getting people at once to admire and excuse your nature, they all try to be rich. Why? Is that what you were wondering? For the power, of course. But above all because wealth shields from immediate judgement, lifts you out of the crowd in the underground, shuts you up in a chromium-plated car and isolates you in huge expanses of protected parkland, or sleeping-cars and luxury cabins. Wealth, my dear friend, is not actually acquittal, but a reprieve – always worth having …
