The greatest source of wealth in this country are the small businesses.

Slowly I began to think that maybe also my criticisms of capitalism and business were unreflective. Maybe I had all the biases of a good liberal arts education. I used to put it this way - I love liberal education. It's in my family's blood, the Harvard classics of my father, and the rest. Everybody in my family tries to be everything else and we all come back to the liberal arts. Okay, what are liberal arts? It's about freedom. But what are you free from? And it hit me, the force of a single word, work.

The liberal arts are the non-servile arts. The non-commercial arts. The non-industrial arts. The liberal arts are the arts of aristocrats who live like princes and with white tablecloths and they don't work. They don't get their hands dirty. And they have time for art and poetry and logic and books and the rest of it. And there's a certain raised eyebrow. The poor grubby grind who studies hard and stays up late at night and there's great praise for the more gentlemanly, easy going, don't take it too seriously, pursue ends in themselves. You don't have to worry about the grubby means, because we have servants to do that.

HATTIE: We don't have to worry where our next meal is coming from.