Has assholism trumped social enterprise?

In an amusing presentation to the Commonwealth Club, professor Geoffrey Nunberg answers questions about his book - "The Ascent of the A-Word : Assholism the first sixty years" 

He relates an anecdote about a man in the Hertz car rental office in Manhattan following the WTC attack on 9/11 who asks which is the line for Gold Card customers. It's a "me first" situation where less vulgar expressions just don't cover it.

When it came to presented to Bill Clinton, unscrupulous was the more polite word for those who created imaginary money to the detriment of other human beings: 

"Positing numbers as real entities, and basing economics on that unproved and unprovable hypothesis, risks disposing of real entities (human beings) in favor of imaginary entities (numbers.)  The only variable needed for that to happen is unscrupulous human beings."

Arguably, the City of London is home to some of the most unscrupulous. For me this was verified very recently with the conference on Inclusive Capitalism.

"Who will challenge traditional thinking, if we only have people like us in our teams? " Asked the Lord Mayor, going on to regurgitate thinking that came from social enterprise a decade earlier, It had warned of the risk of uprisings due to increasing inequality.  

Perhaps assholism is endemic among barristers? I'm reminded of the effort that went into defaming us over the issue of 'Death Camps' for Children in Ukraine.  Moderators from the For-UA discussion forum, who had hosted the original revealed to me that they'd had threats from a barrister. I tracked her internet presence down. just as she was trying to cover her tracks by deletion, 

For-UA had earlier published an interview with the Minister for Youth and Sport where these conditions were acknowledged  They also published the 'Marshall Plan' for Ukraine which acknowledged goverment commitment to creating 400+ rehab centres, as recommended.

Irrespective of this, it was a member of the UK social enterprise community who sniped "There's a lot of criticism online about your work in Ukraine"  It could be argued that assholism as a meme is propagated by the extent one is willing to select the negative over the positive in others to build reputation. As the  old maxim says, you don't make yourself look better by pissing on other people's shoes.

In the end, for USAID, there was no budget for this group of children No such constraint impeded their susequent social enterprise collaboration however.  Assholism finally triumphed at an international level. .