[mattylondon]

Originally Posted by tintin

This leak is just one example of how selfish we've become as a society over the last thirty years, post-Thatcher. It's rare these days - almost unheard of - for people to publicly talk about the value of supporting others or of society in general.

So we get stuff like this, where the default behaviour of individuals and organisations in our society is self-centred greed and avoiding paying one's fair share for the effective functioning and improvement of society. Not good, and not sustainable in the long run.

Top comment and well said. My thoughts exactly.

Just to add, I think the famous people outed in this latest leak (Hamilton, Bono et al.) have been thrown to the wolves by the press, just like Jimmy Carr was a few years back. Where as the likes of Apple sitting on $252 billion in untaxed offshore cash by exploiting Jersey's tax system is the biggest story here.... Corporation Tax Avoidance!! It's sad big global corporations don't pay their equal share to society. It may be fully legal, but where's the ethics? Say what you want about the EU, they are focused on the citizen rather than big business and are trying to implement a Europe wide corporation tax and putting an end to all the double Irish Dutch sandwich loopholes.