What I find the most intriguing and down right disturbing thing about the failure of these leading banking organisations and any corporation for that matter, whether they’re failing or not, is that these clowns who call themselves Chief Executive Officers give themselves and their buddies multi million dollar “compensation” payouts. I find it really disheartening and disillusioning that there are really hard working people struggling to get by while these fat cat executives get rich off the paid slavery that you and I perform week in and week out.

To add an extra pinch of insult to our sensibilities, they then use tax havens in secret banking accounts to avoid paying the taxes which fund the infrastructure that they themselves use. No one likes paying taxes and I’m sure we all manipulate the system to some degree but putting millions away in hidden accounts so the tax man is none the wiser is taking greed and manipulation to a whole new level, although I’m sure they would beg to differ. Is it really that hard to at least try and play fair? Maybe that is why I’m a slave and they’re not. Playing by the rules or being Mr Nice Guy isn’t conducive to success on the face of things.

It seems to me that to be rich and powerful one needs to have morals that are somewhat loose in nature and perhaps even have a psychopathic bent to be able to justify the outrageous and obscene behaviours that the “old boys club” characters get up to.

It just doesn’t seem right. But maybe there are no morals in these sorts of things and that it is just me that would like a level playing field. Perhaps it is merely an ideological fantasy that bears no resemblance to reality – the reality is that it really is a dog eat dog world and not just a cynical view I hold from time to time.