Anti Capitalism, a useful optimisation

Yesterday I met some of the many staff departing ABN Amro, and as I passed what is now an building with "RBS" tacked on as many surfaces as possible I noticed the smell of anti capitalist protesters. It is said that the quality of a man may be measured by his enemies, and thus I felt quite offended that such wretched creatures are apparently my enemies.

I suppose they were protesting about something, but all they had was a dirty flag, with some dippy logo on it. They made no effort to explain their silly ideas, and merely took pictures of themselves, presumably to put on some homoeopathic equivalent of Facebook.

They were apparently not well informed enough to know that given the merger on top of the credit crunch, RBS/ABN is a far more eloquent attack on the failures of capitalism then they could ever dream up.

Unusually for anti-capitalists, one was not pale skinned. Typically they have a higher ratio of white people than a gang of neo fascists or the Labour cabinet. But he had a very cool camera, so I suppose they had to let him tag along.

Given that many of us have more leisure time than we had planned, I wonder if a sabbatical amongst these intellectually challenged individuals might be socially useful. None of us believe that market capitalism is the only or best way of ordering a society, perhaps we should run seminars to explain to these wretches how things work.

Also the quality of protest is wholly pitiful. The bankers passing them did not even pay as much attention as they would to a beggar or an inferior grade of busker. Perhaps we should help them ?