But if you stand on Bishopsgate, at the edge of London's financial district, and ask all the men striding past when a rucksack became acceptable money-making attire, they answer over their shoulders.
"I then thought if we were going to get stung like that, what about the services paid by the public purse?" Mr Foulds said he could not believe it was acceptable for money from the public purse "to be flushed away like confetti".
It's perfectly acceptable to spend money in order to promote yourself and, in turn, eventually earn more money.
If you don't care what price you sell it for, make the buyer's day by accepting whatever lowball offer they give that will still put an acceptable amount of money in your pocket.
Should it be acceptable to earn money from the grubby business of imprisoning asylum seekers while at the same time backing glittering artistic works?
It cannot be acceptable that taxpayers' money is being spent without transparency and councils aren't held accountable for their decisions.
Children should also help their parents clarify their goals to determine how much risk is acceptable: is the money for them, their children or their grandchildren?
If you make $200,000 a year, it is acceptable to spend money on any room previously used by servants, like the kitchen, but it is vulgar to spend on any adult toy that might give superficial pleasure, like a Maserati.
It was enough to make an acceptable offer with money to spare for the refurb, and once the deal completed on 22 October, it was all systems go for the newly renamed Woodchester Valley Village.
This year's survey reveals that in the UK only four thinktanks – the Adam Smith Institute, Centre for Policy Studies, Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange – "still consider it acceptable to take money from hidden hands behind closed doors".
