£1 million a day is OK since he gives a lot of it away. His salary is 11000 times the median UK full-time salary. The liberal Guardian is happy not to include a single criticism. After all, it is a paper sponsored by the like of Bill Gates, another philanthropist whose salary is $100 million a day. A hedge fund manager is obviously, and by the divine design of the ‘free market’, is more important than necessary for society than a nurse, a doctor, a teacher, a train driver, a road digger, or a cleaner. Without a hedge fund manger society would be thrown back into the stone age. Tomorrow, when the next tube strike, for instance, is announced in defence of better working conditions and better salaries, the media and most of the public will denounce it as a work of the lunatic leftist trade union leaders. Sir Chris Hohn
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51