“Little people”, do not listen to Chris Giles, if they finance you at a too high rate, try to keep your consumption low

Sir, Chris Giles writes “It is also deeply patronizing for those with reasonable comfortable incomes to fret that the little people are consuming too much for their good and for that of the wider economy”, “In economics consumption is for life not just for Christmas” December 19.

That might be easy for him to say, he who probably either pays off in cash his credit cards or has the benefit of a reasonable financing rate. If Mr. Giles simply looked at what the “little people” paid in finance costs for their financed consumption, he might think differently.

One of the problems is that much of what the “little people” could spend in consumption, for their good and for that of the wider economy”, goes to pay bonuses to bankers… would Chris Giles by any chance be a banker or a shareholder of a credit company?