Excess in the city

Excess in the City: Bonus Bonanza
9:00pm - 10:00pm, ITV1

“As the City of London prepares to pay an incredible 19 billion pounds in annual bonuses to City staff, this programme reveals the lavish lifestyles of some of the traders and bankers who are part of the pay bonanza, showing how they’ve earned the money and how they’re spending it. The programmes also explores how the payment of such bonuses affects the rest of us, through spiralling house prices and inflation, and details the new industries set up to cater for the new breed of super rich.”

Anyone watch this?  It’s sick that these talentless bastards can make more in a day than a ward full of nurses will in a year. Their pathetic attempts to justify what they get because ‘we work hard’ is laughable’ Proximity to the fiat money machine is the only reason they earn what they do.

Apparantly the similarities to the late 80’s are becoming even more apparent. A city environment where lavish, almost distasteful displays of welath are the norm, and a housing market at unsustainable levels. Where are those bankers now? Depressed and an obscene suicide rate, so I’ve read!

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