Wealth

“If you say there are certain values which are more important than financial values, you’re culturally encouraged to feel a bit immature,” he suggests. “It has become so ingrained into our way of thinking that the only measure of value is cost.”

“And yet,” Scott interjects, “if you measured somebody’s personal wealth in a eulogy at a funeral, if you said, ‘This person had £75,000 in the bank, they had the iPhone 5s’, everybody would be absolutely disgusted. They would say ‘that’s not the person’.”

• FT Weekend interview with Andrew Scott of Sherlock Fame

People spend their working lives looking for the next pay increase or promotion, in environments that they aren’t happy in.

Usually for moral reasons but sometimes to be seen by those around them to be following a traditional path. Yet when they die, this will be forgotten and just the impact they made will remain.