Don’t you wish you could be such a f**k-up at your job that your company would pay you $480 Million Dollars for essentially running its business into the ground?
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yes.
Now, now, let’s not exaggerate. I just heard him testifying in Congress, and he only got something like $260 Mil. Surely nobody could begrudge him such a pittance.
(Really. To me, his tone seemed to be saying exactly that.)
plus he deserved that amount…snark
Yep. There are a few folks just down the hall from me who were promoted for being such f-ups. No big cash bonus, though. Ah, academia. I picked the wrong profession…
Not really.
I take pride in screwing up and not costing billions in taxpayer money when I do.
hey i’d settle for only 20% no make that 10% of that! i’m not greedy!
No.
But an accumulation of money isn’t how I measure myself.
If we were on any fiscal standard backed by real assets: gold, cowry shells, cattle or camels, oil, whatever, then perhaps using a monetary standard to value oneself in relation to others would be reasonable.
ie: The chief is the one with the most cows. Anybody can count the cows.
However, America’s money is a glamour. Elf gold. Illusion. Pieces of paper blessed and printed by the Treasury with nothing to back them but… what… exactly? Full faith and credit? Well, isn’t this a collapse of credit! And the banks are the biggest unbelievers of all because they know that there are no assets backing the credit, no assets leveraging the stock purchases, no assets providing a basic floor to all that speculation.
We’d be far better off without investment houses and stock markets. Sure we could have currency to better enable transactions, but we’d be buying and selling real goods, not future promises of appreciated worth.
I might be worth my weight in gold. A good woman is worth more than pearls and rubies. But paper and promises?