PorFavor wrote:I sometimes muse that it could be a genuine mental illness, this obsessive accruing of wealth which, in many cases, is on a scale which no-one could possibly spend, still less need, over the course of several lifetimes.TheGrimSqueaker wrote:John Mann MP @JohnMannMP · 36m36 minutes ago
HSBC at Treasury Cttee 25 February. Suggestions of questions welcome. Any more whistleblowers out there? if so please contact me
Martin Rowson
@MartinRowson @JohnMannMP Ask them what they spend their bonuses on - no one ever explains why bankers NEED so much money. Coke's relatively cheap
Robert Peston did a couple of excellent Radio 4 programmes recently on inequality.
He interviewed a full blooded capitalist who got hot under the collar explaining that people like him just had to earn barrels of dosh because they needed it for their sense of self esteem.
A psychologist had views on it later...think they said it was all about [unsurprisingly] the ego.
The programmes are really worth a listen on BBC i-player.
The Price of Inequality, Part One
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Part Two
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