Comentário: Ganância

Uma breve história do Banco da América e das suas muitas fraudes por Matt Taibbi, o jornalista que popularizou a expressão "polvo-vampiro" para descrever a Goldman Sachs.

"These guys are some of the very biggest assholes on Earth. They lie, cheat and steal as reflexively as addicts, they laugh at people who are suffering and don't have money, they pay themselves huge salaries with money stolen from old people and taxpayers – and on top of it all, they completely suck at banking."

O que faz os seres humanos partilhar? Experiências parecem indicar que esse ímpeto nasce do reconhecimento do esforço partilhado. Conforme a plutocracia e os seus serviçais no Governo se isolam do mundo real, deixam de ver necessidade de redistribuir a riqueza.

"The losers know the game is rigged, so their innate intution tells them that the winners should share.The winners refuse to know that the game is rigged — deny it vehemently — so they think the losers are unreasonable in their expectations of sharing."