I am educated to the level of a bachelors' degree. I have lived and worked in the real world for over forty years, as a retail assistant, store manager, soldier, Further Education lecturer, examinations manager, systems manager, support officer, analyst, researcher, project manager (agile, scrum and other systems). I took a dip in pay and grade to transfer from the private to the public sector on moral grounds (something you would apparently know nothing about). My hobbies (which include Medium) are separate from my work life, and I am now retired. I make no excuses nor apologies for anything I have done or not done. I have acted according to conscience with a dual determination to help others and maintain my own integrity.

I have worked with 'entrepreneurs', especially during the Thatcher period when they were hard to avoid. I have found them to be universally lacking in principles, compassion, common decency, morality and honesty. They lie, they cheat, they go back on their word, stab colleagues in the back, squeeze employees mercilessly before firing them a month before any form of legal employment protection kicks in. They will not pay for anything they can steal, nor will they pay a fair price for what they do buy. They have no qualms about dealing with known criminals. They evade taxes on a regular basis. I have taken no small pleasure in exposing several of them so that they could experience the deserved consequences of their actions.

In the public sector I made myself unpopular by being a trade union activist.

I have been there and I have done that. Whoever may be making the money, the devices and the internet are actually made and maintained by ordinary working people. By purchasing and using them I am, to however small an extent, helping those people make a living.

I have no objection to capitalism in and of itself, though some of its most noted practitioners are and have been thoroughly vile individuals. My issue is with the cowardice and corruption of governments who fail to protect the majority of their citizens against the depredations of unrestrained capitalism. There must be a balance so that everyone can have a decent life. Achieving that balance means placing restraints - legal restraints - upon the greedy and exploitative.

If you fail to recognise this simple truth, then you must either be completely brainwashed, extremely privileged or as lacking in compassion, conscience and humanity as that billionaire busy grabbing more and more money while his employees work insane hours and get their meals from food banks.