I’m shit at making money. Rubbish. I Couldn’t organise a a piss-up in a brewery. Actually, hold on, I probably could do that. No problem. Anyhows, I’m still shit at making money. Capitalism is a strange thing. Why is there such a huge gap in wealth between the rich and the rest of us? I wonder how it will be viewed by civilization in a few hundred years (if humanity hasn’t annihilated itself by then).
On this very subject I found the following quite a good read.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/aug/04/workandcareers.executivesalaries
“We work harder and aspire the most,” one said. The longer we talked, the more they turned to moral reasons for success and failure, moving away from the structural globalisation reasons given above. One banker said: “It’s a fact of modern life that there is disparity and ‘Is it fair or unfair?’ is not a valid question. It’s just the way it is, and you have to get on with it. People say it’s unfair when they don’t do anything to change their circumstances.” In other words, they see themselves as makers of their own fortune. Or, as another banker said, “Quite a lot of people have done well who want to achieve, and quite a lot of people haven’t done well because they don’t want to achieve”.
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