This Is Why I Hate Wall Street People
In the days before the First Amendment, when a guy wanted to get something off his chest but couldn’t risk his own well-being saying anything too controversial, he wrote an anonymous letter and got it published. For Benjamin Franklin and numerous other revolutionaries, the medium was a perfect one. Today, the anonymous letter is back.
A few days ago, a nasty, unsigned letter surfaced on the blogs of Wall Street and quickly went viral. You should read the missive yourself, but essentially, some banker/trader/finance type took time of out his very busy day to warn Main Street of his imminent arrival into the ranks of the working class.
The letter cautioned that because of our unwarranted meddling in his industry, we’re going to lose our cushy “$85k a year” jobs to him and all his financial friends. We’ll lose our “4 month” vacation privileges, the superfluous bathroom breaks that we take, and our swollen, blue-collar benefit packages. Naturally, Wall Street folk don’t require such frivolities, he says, but they’ll gladly take them (or assist in their elimination) if they’re forced to work our jobs.