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Re: NYC finance gold diggers are lamenting their awful quand
by yesplease » Sun 01 Feb 2009, 17:31:59
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', 'I') don't particularly like the braying rugby playing public schoolboys who tend to go into finance, but that's not a reason to demonise them. We need to be clear who orchestrated this, it was the bankers who lobbied government (and the government themselves for allowing themselves to be corrupted). The minions were merely wannabe yuppies.
Bingo. Granted, the public schoolboys may not have dug ditches, broken concrete, hostled freight, and so on, but they also aren't the ones who probably walked away with billions, maybe trillions over the past few years, by gaming the system.$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Professor Membrane', ' ')Not now son, I'm making ... TOAST!
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Re: NYC finance gold diggers are lamenting their awful quand
by ReverseEngineer » Sun 01 Feb 2009, 17:55:14
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Remember, it isn't people who happen to find a good way to make money who are at fault here, it's those who lobbied for deregulation and sat in the shadows, raking in the money.
I don't particularly like the braying rugby playing public schoolboys who tend to go into finance, but that's not a reason to demonise them. We need to be clear who orchestrated this, it was the bankers who lobbied government (and the government themselves for allowing themselves to be corrupted). The minions were merely wannabe yuppies.
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Remember, it isn't people who happen to find a good way to make money who are at fault here, it's those who lobbied for deregulation and sat in the shadows, raking in the money.
I don't particularly like the braying rugby playing public schoolboys who tend to go into finance, but that's not a reason to demonise them. We need to be clear who orchestrated this, it was the bankers who lobbied government (and the government themselves for allowing themselves to be corrupted). The minions were merely wannabe yuppies.
Sometimes good people succeed and make money, even in spite of themselves. I know many folks committed, working for, and sacrificing daily for social justice. And they are comfortable. It's not necessary to beat up on oneself for being a citizen of the richest country ever to exist.
I guess it would be so much easier if justice prevailed and life were black and white. But it is not.
I do not believe we are talking about $200K a year Social Workers.
In any event, the fact your typical $200K/year broker on Wall Street was just an apparatchik and not the real beneficiary of all the theft, just because Al Capone took most of the profits, does this absolve his Hit Men from guilt? Remember also, the Wannabee Pigmen of today are the real Pigmen of tomorrow, at least the ones that make it to the top of the Food Chain.
If you were a Wall Street Banker with a real Social Conscience who gave away all your spare dollars to the needy, pats on the back there, but that still doesn't absolve the guilt of working for a crooked and corrupt system, anymore than the average Nazi Soldier was innocent when employed by Hitler.
As things spin down here, all folks are left with the consequence of the choices they made in life. If you made the choice to be a Wannabee Pigman and Yuppie in NYC or London, you made a BAD choice. You'll live with the consequences of that, and those consequences no longer include dipping your wick into Ford Agency Models and stuffing their noses with Cocaine.
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