Entrepreneurship

From Alain de Botton’s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, via the LRB blog.

These individuals were writing their stories in a subgenre of contemporary fiction, the business plan, and populating them with characters endowed with deeply implausible personalities, an oversight which would eventually be punished not by a scathing review by some bright young person from the London Review of Books but by a lack of custom and a prompt foreclosure.

I have no comment, really, I just like his turn of phrase.