It continues: "The Tory move risks simply showering unearned rewards on those who happen to be renting existing stock".
In the 40 years since Greene was speaking, artists of all sorts – writers, musicians, film-makers, painters and sculptors – have been showered with rewards and approbation to an unprecedented degree.
Lives can be ruined both by insufficiency and excess as humanity is pressed into the service not of a force of nature but of an economic order that showers its rewards with promiscuous disregard for where they may fall.
Lots of voters dismiss the idea that Britain can shape the EU and conclude that they should seek a much more distant relationship.Finally, there is a near-consensus that Britain's current social contract unfairly hits hard-working ordinary folk, while showering undeserved rewards on those at the top (eg, bankers) and at the bottom (ie, welfare recipients and migrants).
These floods in turn shower vast economic rewards on those nations that have the will and vision to make science and technology the cornerstone of their development programmes.
To help Mr Sharon counter domestic critics of the Gaza evacuation, he showered Israel with rewards.
This retains the link between reward and the company's share price, but removes most of the opportunities to pump and dump.Another method of showering bosses with rewards which surfaced in 2002 has been pension packages.
Some executives enjoy a "halo of reputation", the academics suggest, that causes directors to shower them with vast rewards when an equally capable but less famous alternative might have been willing to do the job at a small fraction of the price.One thing holding back such executives was "outrage constraint", a fear that massive pay packages might attract unwelcome attention in the media.
If showering politicians with political rewards for cultivating his support has been the carrot in the Murdoch equation, then punishing them for speaking out has generally been the stick.
If Baby struggles to use these, rather than being punished or mocked, Baby shall be rewarded with a shower of kisses and a thirty-minute photo session of Baby covered in spaghetti sauce.
Indeed, life perpetually rewards sheer dumb luck, showering benefits on those fortunate enough to be born with rich parents or great cheekbones, or to be James Marshall glancing down at Sutter's Mill and spotting a gleaming nugget.
