I feel really bad for the guy. Clearly his "friends" are very short sighted since while they lived high on the hog for a moment, long term who will ever want to work with them? What will be their means of income?
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell