There goes civilisation...

cgNNNN:

you're full of it. Bankers may be aware of their incompetence, but that's not enough, anyone with an ounce of decency in their body would have tried to correct their wrongs, rather than making things worse and worse with the hope that they can get away will fucking the rest of the population over financially.

Oh, and I mentioned primark, and you think people stopped going just because there was a programme on telly recently about their child labour issues. you're totally wrong, I have never set foot in a primark/tkmaxx/gap etc in my life, and never will.

you've clearly been brainwashed to believe that market forces are all that matters in the world, and ethics are a commodity like everything else. Buddha tells me you'll have a chain of miserable reincarnations as an intestinal parasite.

You really do seem to believe that there was some kind of conspiracy at work, don't you?

There wasn't. As many others have pointed out, it is the unintended consequences of an accumulation of human frailties that brought about the current situation. While nobody - least of all CG5154 - has claimed that bankers didn't make mistakes and don't bear blame, most people have a nuanced enough understanding of the world to realise that you can function as a part of this wider system without being corrupt personally.

The point being that reasonable people can differ reasonably over the right way to operate within this economy.

But you appear to be claiming moral superiority and indulging in petty ad hominems because you appear to think that anyone involved in finance (and probably, judging by your tone, in capitalism) is necessarily corrupt, while you - well, you boycott a couple of high-street chains. What a fucking joke.

Much as it may pain you to realise it, you're just as much a part of this whole fucked up system as the rest of us. I suspect that the Buddha would have told you not to throw stones in glass houses.