The Panama papers show that rich people aren’t even rational: they send their money on holiday to the Caymans,and live in perpetual rain in BritainPerhaps we have all become too cynical. Why should we be suspicious of people who conceal money deep within multiple shell companies on a tax-haven island with the transparency of a lead-lined coffin? It’s like being suspicious of your husband just because he’s hidden a second mobile phone in a box of Maltesers in his gym bag, wrapped in an old dust sheet, or in the car,in the space where the spare wheel should be.
This scandal suggests some complex element in the British psyche that knows this kind of thing is happening but can’t bear to be confronted with the knowledge. We know Cameron is filthy rich – he’s wearing a two-grand suit – but his sin is that he has forced us to contemplate approximately it. Cameron has struggled to deal with the revelations partly because he has no opinion what normal is. I mean, none of us are certain, and really,but let’s not forget that Dave once did a photo op where he tried to eat a hotdog with a knife and fork. The phrase “something like £30000” is one the man in the street can only tolerate being used so casually whether it’s describing the weekly wage of some journeyman left-back sex-case that his club is after.
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Source: theguardian.com