tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post9164528486190545473..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Class and BonusesBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-62583105849189017792009-12-08T18:20:27.123+00:002009-12-08T18:20:27.123+00:00Because a $50 million bonus tends to make people n...Because a $50 million bonus tends to make people not give a rat's ass about being out of work next year.Tom P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05638283790763940692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-68142664037575536482009-12-08T08:27:30.911+00:002009-12-08T08:27:30.911+00:00I know you're not after a scientific answer. i...I know you're not after a scientific answer. inertia and relativity.Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-31774411388233952092009-12-07T19:10:59.998+00:002009-12-07T19:10:59.998+00:00I'm sure Gaw is right, the aim is to keep the ...I'm sure Gaw is right, the aim is to keep the tax take going and boost the value of things the government wants to turn into money. "We had to bankrupt the village in order to save it," as General Broon may come to write in his memoirs if it all goes horribly wrong.<br /><br />I don't see much point in appealing to pragmatism, though. The banksters will always out-argue you, Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-28476530503225162662009-12-07T16:16:33.139+00:002009-12-07T16:16:33.139+00:00Yet that depressing class war gambit might just pa...Yet that depressing class war gambit might just pay off. It may be low politics but we're in an age of low politics. Not that I think it's ever been any different but now it's all so calculated. The Tories spin whatever their focus groups tell them works. They'd promote flogging if they thought it hit the right demographic. Labour are no different. Policies are more about the Willardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-21887519581629066532009-12-07T10:51:22.616+00:002009-12-07T10:51:22.616+00:00Don't wish to bring a dark cloud along this mo...Don't wish to bring a dark cloud along this morning, no doubt you are still basking in the afterglow from seeing Darcy on Strictly, but...at the ATM in the RBS St Andrews Square HQ yesterday, <i>the machine was empty.</i><br />No doubt the crisp tens and twenties earmarked for some other, more meaningfull purpose.<br />Our mole in the Gogarburn half empty complex abandoned ship last week, maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-5682826180325096872009-12-07T10:31:00.199+00:002009-12-07T10:31:00.199+00:00It's happening for two reasons. Firstly, captu...It's happening for two reasons. Firstly, capture of government in the US and UK by financial interests (not a bit of lefty paranoia: the former chief economist of the IMF Simon Johnson believes this).<br /><br />Secondly, governments need the risky, bonus-linked trading activities to continue as they're desperate for the associated taxes. In the case of the UK government they also need Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-59390555273145552312009-12-07T09:52:04.656+00:002009-12-07T09:52:04.656+00:00How about making the bankers personally liable for...How about making the bankers personally liable for the debt? That might slow 'em down a bit.trahernehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03554983022190670978noreply@blogger.com