I was talking to a friend who got to attend a special showing of “Inside Job,” and he was saying how shocked he was.
“Why?” I said. “You get rich, privileged people in a position to make money by screwing over other people, it’s going to happen. It always has happened.”
If there’s one thing I learned back when I was a fraud investigator, it’s that there’s a class of people who don’t actually need the money they’re stealing — it just tastes better when they steal it. They get off on it.
Yeah, and it just goes to re-emphasize the old saying about honor and theives since—–amazingly and without shame, and in the middle of all the bullshit—–Obama brazenly appoints Sommers, Geithner, et. al. to make certain that the richest bastards responsible for all the robbery got more of our dough poured back into Wall Street’s coffers. Sheesh………!
I never understood why there wasn’t more outrage about Enron, when tapes with Enron employees openly gloating about “screwing Grandma Millie” or chanting burn baby burn, its a beautiful thing watching a newscast of a wildfire. Did we really need additional proof that the industry of America is making money for money sakes, instead of providing services or products that the public can use?
there’s a class of people who don’t actually need the money they’re stealing — it just tastes better when they steal it. They get off on it.
i think it has more to do with perceptions of need. when you have a lot of money, you get used to having expensive things. what would otherwise be considered to be a luxury becomes in your mind a necessity. there are very very few people who don’t feel like they need anything, no matter how wealthy they are.
that’s just my perspective. i was never a fraud investigator but i did go to a “rich kids” private school for HS with bunch of seriously wealthy people.