Envy and the public sentiment
How much of the public wrath about banking crises is really legitimate and honest, and how much has nothing at all to do with concern about the economy and is just about wanting to make rich people suffer? People are losing jobs and homes, or they live in fear of it. Outraged mobs of the poor are to be expected.
I personally, imagine that envy, and schadenfreude are way more likely motivations than any desire for justice.
None of this is to say that these people don't deserve to suffer, but most humans would have made the choices they made and would still have wanted their bonuses at the end of fucking everything up. There is nothing unusual or unnaturally evil about any of this. The media's "the people are up in arms" stuff is about boosting their ratings by pandering to what they perceive as the public sentiment, not to provide an accurate reflection of it. The truth is that there is no "public sentiment", just worried people looking for something to distract them from life.
I personally, imagine that envy, and schadenfreude are way more likely motivations than any desire for justice.
None of this is to say that these people don't deserve to suffer, but most humans would have made the choices they made and would still have wanted their bonuses at the end of fucking everything up. There is nothing unusual or unnaturally evil about any of this. The media's "the people are up in arms" stuff is about boosting their ratings by pandering to what they perceive as the public sentiment, not to provide an accurate reflection of it. The truth is that there is no "public sentiment", just worried people looking for something to distract them from life.
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This is utterly brilliant.
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