It's absolutely infuriating what these people did to the world. Real, worthwhile companies create useful things, they actually have to make something. These assholes just move numbers around on some spreadsheet.
Every investment banker needs to die. They've made an industry out of getting between people and those that provide financial services and then charged fortunes for being a roadblock and doing stupid things with other people's money.
This doesn't even touch on banks themselves that have spread into other conflict-of-interest areas and play video poker with the economy every fucking day.
But the most sickening thing is those on YT and other places that say those people "earned" the money and that we're just "jealous." If I could pay off lawmakers so sitting on my ass playing video games netted me millions per year, I somehow don't think the word "earned" would enter into most people's definitions of how I was getting rich.
Wow SPK I'm really impressed with your rock solid grasp on the functions and behaviors of financial institutions. You must have extensive experience in the field. Your hyperbolic fantastic simplifications are really spot on. You don't sound jealous at all and must have certainly risen to the top percentile of your chosen profession.
Maybe people are just upset because the unpunished criminal actions of that industry resulted in a lot of hardship for everyone, and we had to literally give them a bunch of money.
Just in case you needed some targets for your torches and/or pitchforks, here's a "where are they now?" article about the major players in the financial meltdown. Surprisingly, none of them are in jail:
I know that important facts and superheated bile are going to get tossed around over this subject again, but I'm starring this entirely for the repeated wipes featuring 50 Cent's diamond skull.
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