But fast forward a day — and to 2021 culture. I note Nike is suing Brooklyn art collective MSCHF for trademark infringement after it sold 666 pairs of $1,018 modified Air Max “Satan Shoes” that contain human blood in the soles. A collaborative video on YouTube shows rapper Lil Nas X sliding down a stripper pole from heaven to hell to steal Satan’s horns, while wearing the trainers that reference Bible verse Luke 10:18: “So He told them, ‘I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven’.”

There is so much about modern capitalism here distilled in one drop, I doubt even Karl Marx would know where to start — and none of it provides much assurance capitalism can improve life, or itself be saved. Although, on this evidence, the jury is also out on art, sportswear, music, religion and even pole-dancing.

Whether financial markets are fit for purpose to solve modern problems is no longer a philosophical question, even for those of us head down in them every day. Former BlackRock ESG chief investment officer Tariq Fancy is doing the rounds in the media claiming that responsible investment criteria are like “selling wheatgrass to a cancer patient” and are actually harmful.

While I sympathise that much of today’s ESG box-ticking is just that — a free market “rush to gather assets”, as Fancy puts it — I can’t get behind his conclusion that government action is the only viable fix.

As much as I hope the Biden administration will finally bring the US back on track with climate initiatives, if we have to rely on top-down global political coordination we are all doomed. New Netflix documentary Seaspiracy — another of the past month’s bleaker musings — claims we are sleepwalking toward lifeless oceans by 2048, lulled by misleading ‘sustainable’ stamps on produce from deeply compromised overseers. It sounds familiar.