>In 2019 alone, some CHF100 million was paid out to a few top managers, the newspaper says. In other years, various top earners were awarded up to CHF30 million in deals that were kept secret from shareholders.
Something might actually happen here because they defrauded shareholders, ie other rich people.
No – yes – oh !
surprised-pikachu.jpg
Water is wet
😱 Say it ain’t so!
What’s the point of being a boss otherwise?
*Shocked pikachu*
They probably found a way to pay huge bonuses to themselves also after the UBS “deal”
Of course they bloody did.
Where’s the news?
But I’m sure they felt really bad about it – (*cue in meme with Woody wiping tears with cash)
I’m not saying we should go back to the time where we lynched rich people when they caused societal malcontent, but maybe just the risk of being eaten would keep them in check.
Steal a bank’s teller and you go away for 20 years.
Steal a bank’s investments/deposits and you walk away scot free.
Capitalism is the Best!
Instead of saying “Bank X did this” and “Bank Y did that”, people (and the Press) should be saying “People/person at bank X decided to do this” and “People/person at bank Y decided to do that”.
Even the language we’ve been conditioned to use when it comes to misbehaviour within institutions helps the individuals doing the malfeasances by refering to the “institution” when it’s people, often very specific people, taking decisions and executing the deeds.
Banks and other institutions aren’t sentient: behind every decisions and every action there is a human willing it to be so.
When those doing such things are willfully hidden by the rest of society behind the façade which is the institution, so they don’t even have to worry about social shame, it’s no wonder that abuse and even malfeasance are rife.
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>In 2019 alone, some CHF100 million was paid out to a few top managers, the newspaper says. In other years, various top earners were awarded up to CHF30 million in deals that were kept secret from shareholders.
Something might actually happen here because they defrauded shareholders, ie other rich people.
No – yes – oh !
surprised-pikachu.jpg
Water is wet
😱 Say it ain’t so!
What’s the point of being a boss otherwise?
*Shocked pikachu*
They probably found a way to pay huge bonuses to themselves also after the UBS “deal”
Of course they bloody did.
Where’s the news?
But I’m sure they felt really bad about it – (*cue in meme with Woody wiping tears with cash)
I’m not saying we should go back to the time where we lynched rich people when they caused societal malcontent, but maybe just the risk of being eaten would keep them in check.
Steal a bank’s teller and you go away for 20 years.
Steal a bank’s investments/deposits and you walk away scot free.
Capitalism is the Best!
Instead of saying “Bank X did this” and “Bank Y did that”, people (and the Press) should be saying “People/person at bank X decided to do this” and “People/person at bank Y decided to do that”.
Even the language we’ve been conditioned to use when it comes to misbehaviour within institutions helps the individuals doing the malfeasances by refering to the “institution” when it’s people, often very specific people, taking decisions and executing the deeds.
Banks and other institutions aren’t sentient: behind every decisions and every action there is a human willing it to be so.
When those doing such things are willfully hidden by the rest of society behind the façade which is the institution, so they don’t even have to worry about social shame, it’s no wonder that abuse and even malfeasance are rife.
As is tradition.
SURPRIIIIISE!