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As I was going through the list I still don't feel any sympathy for these bankers. The whole idea of budgeting for the majority of people is to make do with se
by froo 18y ago
As I was going through the list I still don't feel any sympathy for these bankers.
The whole idea of budgeting for the majority of people is to make do with seemingly limited resources. It's what everyone does to manage their own money.
Why can't someone who is supposed to manage everyones money practice a little self restraint?
- tptacek 18y agoI don't think the article was trying to make you feel sympathy; I think it was playing with subtext.
- angstrom 18y agoEither way, are we really supposed to believe these bankers don't know their way around taxes? It's not like they're squeezing paycheck to paycheck.
- sethg 18y agoIt's hard to tell, because I've seen a lot of "lifestyle" articles in the Times that seem pitched to appeal to people with seven-figure incomes. E.g., there was a cover story in the NYT Magazine a few months back about surrogate motherhood, by a woman who was married to an investment banker, and not only dropped $25K to have another woman gestate her baby but hired a nanny--excuse me, a "baby nurse"--to care for the kid. Not that there's anything wrong with either one, but I'd be embarrassed to have my face in the foreground of this picture: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/11/30/magazine/30surrogate.2-500.jpg http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/11/30/magazine/30su...
- Spyckie 18y agoI think this article is supposed to be a joke... or, to clarify, its supposed to make bankers feel good about themselves while ridiculing them.
- froo 18y agoI understood the hyperbole. I was just suggesting that even taking the obvious exaggeration as literal fact, I still don't feel sympathy for these bankers...