Status Updates From Down and Out in Paris and L...

"In practice nobody really cares whether work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable. In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except 'Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it'?"

Compelling argument (then even now), but I think if applied to the present context it became more nuanced.