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BIRD’S WORDS

Constantly putting profit first is an approach that doesn’t hold water

I am constantly reminded of a comment attributed to Lenin on the morals of money: “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” You don’t have to love the trajectory of Lenin’s own course through life – as the father of the USSR, according to the blue plaque outside his 1903 home in London’s Bloomsbury – but you can embrace the wisdom of the comment.

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