This is acceptable as long as the billionaires all take big haircuts this time. In 2008, they paid themselves huge bonuses while Main St. got evicted. Not happening this time!
Pitchforks, torches, and nooses if necessary.
Pitchforks, torches, and nooses if necessary.
Also, it's not great to use a politically provocative username. That ends up having a politically provocative effect on every thread the account posts to. If you want to stick around and use HN as intended, we can rename the account for you if you email hn@ycombinator.com.
> Thousands of top traders and bankers on Wall Street were awarded huge bonuses and pay packages last year, even as their employers were battered by the financial crisis.
> Nine of the financial firms that were among the largest recipients of federal bailout money paid about 5,000 of their traders and bankers bonuses of more than $1 million apiece for 2008, according to a report released Thursday by Andrew M. Cuomo, the New York attorney general.
> At Goldman Sachs, for example, bonuses of more than $1 million went to 953 traders and bankers, and Morgan Stanley awarded seven-figure bonuses to 428 employees. Even at weaker banks like Citigroup and Bank of America, million-dollar awards were distributed to hundreds of workers.
The amount of economic waste involved in people having silly arguments over their perceptions of reality would likely be a horrifying large number if one was to see it.