Bankers' excessive salaries as predictors of Depression

Re:Bankers' excessive salaries as predictors of Depression by time_management on Sunday January 25, 2009 @02:21PM (#449402)

Engineering and mechanics are admirable professions. "Any 'profession' connected to real estate" excludes engineering and architecture, which are completely fine lines of work. Construction depends on whether the buildings are beautiful and useful or not. Construction connected to some gauche nouveau mogul like Donald Trump would definitely not be OK, but construction of beautiful churches (or temples, mosques) and houses is fine.

Also, my "ilk" have always had a lot of respect for inventors and entrepreneurs, who are the productive engine of our economy. My parents were thrilled when I told them I was joining a startup. We just don't like "business" scumbags-- politically-skilled corporate bureaucrats who masquerade as entrepreneurs-- who move money around but don't contribute intellectually to society, and real estate is especially disreputable because of that industry's exploitation of status-driven and simian emotions.

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Re:Bankers' excessive salaries as predictors of Depression by anamax on Sunday January 25, 2009 @06:13PM (#449685)

> and real estate is especially disreputable because of that industry's exploitation of status-driven and simian emotions.

Then sales of art, clothing, jewelry, and pleasure vehicles must be beyond mention.

Thanks for the interesting perspective. As a peasant, I've always blamed the political class for the sins of "politically-skilled corporate bureaucrats".

Then again, I think that construction of a factory, house, or hotel is a higher calling than construction of a church.

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