Tuesday, November 6, 2007

In Defense of Bankers

I'll be writing this when I have the time... ie sometime between the hours of 2am and 5am one day this week........

However, after a conversation with a friend last night, I find myself with no other choice than to defend the profession known as Investment Banking. Why? I know, we are loathsome creatures. But academics (from the social science spectrum) with no business (especially with no finance) experience have no business making blanket statements concerning the profession. Why? Well, it shows their blatant ignorance and lack of understanding; their inability to remove personal bias and politics from their academics; and their true biases and bigotry. Rather sad since they spend a vast majority of their time accusing others of the exact same thing........

So, eventually I will get around to this defense.

For the time being - isn't it slightly funny how once the Wall fell and Communism was no longer the dominant threat to the world, the villains in movies became businessmen, capitalists, and Western white males? (This did exist before the Wall - example Gordon Gecko as the bad guy, but it has become oh so prominent in the last 20 years.... rather disturbing)



Side note for the night: Lifetime might be the worst channel ever created. I ask you, have they ever showed a single movie where, out of two characters - a man and a woman, the woman is the evil, horrible, disgusting and murderous one? Can we say discrimination, bias and stereotyping????

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