A Thought for Tuesday

This was written in 1931 by John Maynard Keynes, whose name has popped up recently in debates about the current financial crisis.

"When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high
social importance, there will be great changes in the
code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many
of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden
us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted
some of the most distasteful of human qualities
into the position of highest virtues."