In our day-to-day lives as debased and alienated servants of global capital's misery-machine/individuals endowed with free will, most of the drugs we take aren't strictly performance-enhancing.
And of the 100 million global female migrants, most work as servants.
Yet both estimates are what military people call SWAG - scientific wild-ass guesses - about a woolly and ever-growing overseas population of civil servants, diplomats, employees of global businesses, students, journalists, artists, academics and, yes, soldiers on the battlefield.
We are, instead, the servants of debt, of global forces we barely comprehend, let alone master, of dimly known internal desires and frailties, of bodily weaknesses and communal guilt, of location and environment.
With the magic that is the global economy she's turned a servant's wage into private school tuition for her own children.
And since he is by temperament less a cautious civil servant than a mad global gunslinger, he is often forced to play headsplittingly intricate games with his superiors in the S.I.S. and the Foreign Office in order to get his way.
That kind of global citizenship from an American public servant speaks volumes about who we truly are and what we want our role in the world to be.
A Cabinet Office spokeswoman said: "To win the global race we need the best civil servants regardless of their background.
Finance is returned to its role as servant rather than master of the global economy; and we invest our taxes and encourage private savings into labour-intensive business opportunities that really protect the environment.
I want to expand our Wales in Africa programme to enable more public servants to offer their skills in tackling global poverty.
