Do views differ after success?

Marina Hyde's Grauniad article highlights an interesting rockstar phenomenon: They live like aristocrats, Now they think like them. They've changed their views after they've moved up in the world. Politicians do exactly the same, remember Tony's manifesto New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country back in 1996? I was 17 when that was published, in fact I recall pointing out in our sixth form mock General Election how PR driven New Labour were. The Torygraph highlights how Tony's position on ID cards has changed since back then: ID cards don't work – even Tony says so famously sold the Body Shop to . To give another example, Dame Anita RoddickL'Oréal (parce que l'éthique le vaut bien!?) this year, after she rallied against them for the last 30 years.

Fortunately most people don't change for the worse though, some companies have an even greater focus after their business succeeds, consider Google and their do no evil motto, they've setup google.org now too; and John Bird kept the focus at the The Big Issue. Then there are people who have a switch of focus after they have been successful for sometime, consider how Bill Gates' Foundation is tackling issues world-wide; or how Mark Shuttleworth has helped Ubuntu forward to become the most widely adopted GNU-Linux distribution in the last 2 years, available completely no-charge.

I'll do my best to keep my principals if I'm ever that successful ;) がんばりますね！