Billionaire Denis O’Brien thinks university graduates are “entitled”, remote working is a bad idea and HR professionals are “weak” people who “also want to work from home”. But, he went on – pertinently, or so critics of his own tax arrangements might say – “the question is: is it acceptable?”Tech billionaire John Collison thinks Ireland is hopelessly inefficient, stymied by too much regulation and too many quangos. This is a recurring theme of Irish life: the notion that everything would be vastly improved if only rich men such as O’Leary, O’Brien or Collison were in charge. Collison and his brother built a payments system that was better than existing payments systems. Ireland – and almost every other country, aside from Sweden – diverted all of its resources towards a single goal.
