That's right, I spent most of last week mingling with the high-n-mighty movers and shakers, financial whizzes, those wonderful magicians creating wealth out of nothing - i.e. other people's money: ________. (Take your pick: bankers, option traders, short sellers, hedge funders, private equity types)
In a display of self-congratulatory pompousness, mixed with slight caution - the sort that you feel when you are afraid your trouser seam may burst, so you are just a little tentative in your actions - I saw a bunch of these guys boast about AUM and, among other things, wealth creation.
How can anyone whose entire lifetime of achievements consists of pushing paper and nudging numbers EVER claim to have CREATED anything, when there are ordinary folks that MAKE wheat and leather and milk and cheese scraping by? We do live in warped times.
The last guy who (*supposedly*) created wine from water and walked on water got crucified.
1 comment:
I think the Crucifixion is now here!
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