{"id":41817,"date":"2018-05-13T08:20:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T07:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=41817"},"modified":"2018-05-13T10:06:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T09:06:35","slug":"the-myth-of-the-self-made-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/13\/the-myth-of-the-self-made-person\/","title":{"rendered":"The myth of the self-made person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had already been writing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/13\/we-need-to-get-back-to-the-essence-of-the-company\/\">what I think the true meaning of a company is<\/a>\u00a0when I read this in an email from The Sunday Times this morning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/13\/the-myth-of-the-self-made-person\/screen-shot-2018-05-13-at-08-13-43\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41818\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-13-at-08.13.43-550x430.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-13-at-08.13.43-550x430.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-13-at-08.13.43-384x300.png 384w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-13-at-08.13.43-768x600.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-13-at-08.13.43-512x400.png 512w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-13-at-08.13.43.png 1070w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0No one builds their own fortunes.<\/p>\n<p>No one is self-made.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Times might like to promote the myth at the behest of, or to flatter, Rupert Murdoch. But the simple fact is that everyone has to work in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/13\/we-need-to-get-back-to-the-essence-of-the-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">company<\/a>. And the bread has to be shared.<\/p>\n<p>Those who think otherwise need to be reminded, often, of the folly of their thinking and, too often, their ways..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had already been writing about what I think the true meaning of a company is\u00a0when I read this in an email from The Sunday<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/13\/the-myth-of-the-self-made-person\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}