I have a simple suggestion for particular young men and women who work in the financial sector and all the telemarketing, internet marketing, media marketing companies which support the financial sector. Listen up, if this applies to you or someone you know. And, if does not apply to you, share it with anyone you know in the financial (banking and investment) sector of the U.S., to whom you feel it does apply.
Stealing is not a legitimate business. Whether you disguise it as math or options or margins, stealing is stealing. Fraud is fraud. And, selling thin air, numbers without value, is fraudulent and unworthy behavior for anyone with a frontal lobe and a spine. Duping people and exploiting their human weaknesses is unethical and immoral. It cheapens the value of all human life.
Now, I know the federal government, in all its corrupt beneficence, has spared many of you from prosecution and jail time. In fact, for whatever insane reasons, the government has allowed you to continue exploiting the citizens of the U.S. in the name of "saving the economy". But, a great many of us out here just don't buy it.
I am appealing to the better human instincts in any individual person in this so-called industry who reads this. You know what you are doing is hurting people. You know what you are doing is simply accumulating wealth for people a lot richer than you'll ever be or need to be. You know you are contributing to the erosion of American democracy by increasing the gulf between rich and poor.
If you feel in the tiniest way that this message applies to you, I am simply asking you to consider doing something that will help humanity in a simple, direct and concrete way. Yes, you can go on the road of the Madoffs and the Enrons and the AIGs. But, you have a choice. You can choose not to. No matter what you are doing, always question whether you would want it to be done to you.
