Benthamism

Yesterday I was chatting to a very senior exec in one of our four banks.

He was rabbiting on about how disappointed he was in the current government, suggesting that the bank’s interests were not being very well looked after.

I noted that there is nothing in our constitution that suggests that governments are there to represent anything other than the people, on a basis of (vaguely) one person, one vote.

Not possums, not banks, not the church, nor even retirement plans for politicians.

All of these causes are second order; only considered through the lens of the best interests of the people.

Then I laughed.