Agatha Christie

Recently I enjoyed watching a BBC version of an Agatha Christie story.
At one point, something like the following dialogue occurred between a wealthy young man and a young "radical":

Angry young "radical": "Aren't you ashamed of yourself indulging in such a frivolous pastime as boating?--at a time when families are starving, when men have no work?"

Privileged Aristocrat: "Well, I don't know how to build a boat myself or take care of it, and I employ men to do it for me...."

There the conversation ended. But Agatha Christie plainly did not understand the real young "radicals" of the world because the conversation might have continued:

"But what I object to is precisely that--the fact that you--a man with no real talents--have the power to hire and fire other people. That you--a man who has no broad social vision, a man in no way better than anybody else, and maybe even worse than many--have the ability to decide where and how social resources are used."

Even today we have a so-called "crisis" because those with power are now taking resources away from the rest of us.... and this is not being done in order to create a better world, but merely to guarantee that the richest and most powerful continue to be the richest and most powerful.....