This accidentally came out as a rather Japanese Manga style tee. It’s inspired by all the sleeping businessmen I saw at Budapest Airport recently. I started to imagine what a wannabe tycoon would dream of and made a sketch. I only found it again recently and thought it’d be a great t-shirt design.

To be honest I so hope I’m wrong about businessmen’s dreams, sexy ladies, fun in the sun, the good old days, anything but master plans for world economic domination. As a kid there were lads who pulled the legs of insects, tied cans to cats’ tails, shoot birds with air rifles. I found it horrifying, I didn’t mind a fight, I used to watch ‘Monkey’ - an old 1970’s dubbed Japanese Kung-fu proggy for kids. I bought a bamboo stick like the kid next door and we used to fight on top of a garage. But he was my equal, it was a challenge.

The difference with most people and businessmen who want to dominate the world is that they have a different attitude to competition. Destroy the weakest, the poorest, those with the least influence in the world, and then work your way up.

I’m in no position to complain. The Net, this blog, the duff laptop I’m using to write it, everything that enables me to be here is due to a competitive market. I just think it’s a little sad that for someone to get everything, everyone else must lose out. Don’t worry I’m not going all Commie on ya, I know there isn’t a political solution. Perhaps as resources become scarce (to the extreme), self-sufficiency will present itself as a medium for empowerment of the individual. Who knows, perhaps it’s just a pipe dream.

Pipe Dream