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George Orwell

“In practice nobody cares if 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"? Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised.”

George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
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Down and Out in Paris and London Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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