Estate Living Digital Publication Issue 8 August 2015 | Page 13

W H A T ’S

PUTTING
All play and no work!

Have we become slaves to the work ethic? Does
good old-fashioned hard graft actually offer any
guarantee of satisfaction? In a similar vein, is
making money or being successful in business now
seen as anything other than a passing phase and of
little value as a lasting measure of achievement?
These questions are not new, although they have
perhaps become slightly more poignant when looked
at in the context of the past two decades or so, where

conspicuous consumption was the order of the day.
This was indeed a heady time. A time when you
could have your cake, eat it and have a slice of
someone else’s too. An era when you could buy a
second home, a vacation timeshare, a new car and
a motor cruiser all through finance from almost any
bank and based on just a merest sniff of equity in any
real estate that had your name on it. It was an era in
which a 12-year-old could buy a block of apartments
when he or she didn’t have the cash or assets to buy