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“I don’t know enough about the housing sector. I was making—“ is a pretty terrible last question. Barney Frank’s retort is hilarious: You don’t know that much a
by FormerBandmate 4y ago
“I don’t know enough about the housing sector. I was making—“ is a pretty terrible last question. Barney Frank’s retort is hilarious: You don’t know that much about banking, either. You’re not supposed to; you’re not an expert. It’s the exact same issue as with banking. If I ruled as off-limits anything I’d worked on when I was in Congress, I guess I’d be a monk.
That being said, Barney Frank’s rationale of wanting to make money is pretty openly terrible, he doesn’t come of great either
- benjaminwootton 4y agoPeople need money to live, and even wanting to make a lot of it seems fair enough. Non competes don’t usually go down very well in these parts, so expecting someone to voluntarily step away from their area of expertise is a big ask.
- sokoloff 4y agoWhy do you work at whatever job you work at? If they said “we’ll keep everything else exactly the same, but starting Monday, we’ll only be paying you minimum wage”, would you change anything? I like what I do; I like my colleagues; I’m proud of what our teams have accomplished, but I’m very clear that I work for money.
- xwolfi 4y agoWell he explains he wants to make money, and I want to make money too, so I dont get the terrible problem here: why not work in a company hiring you for the highest possible salary balanced by keeping your integrity ? Having made the mistake to have been an elected official in the past should not ban you from high responsibility jobs, maybe ?