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by mistermann 2283 days ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/business/31pay.html

> Thousands of top traders and bankers on Wall Street were awarded huge bonuses and pay packages last year, even as their employers were battered by the financial crisis.

> Nine of the financial firms that were among the largest recipients of federal bailout money paid about 5,000 of their traders and bankers bonuses of more than $1 million apiece for 2008, according to a report released Thursday by Andrew M. Cuomo, the New York attorney general.

> At Goldman Sachs, for example, bonuses of more than $1 million went to 953 traders and bankers, and Morgan Stanley awarded seven-figure bonuses to 428 employees. Even at weaker banks like Citigroup and Bank of America, million-dollar awards were distributed to hundreds of workers.

The amount of economic waste involved in people having silly arguments over their perceptions of reality would likely be a horrifying large number if one was to see it.

1 comments

If a million, a billion, and a trillion are all equal, or equal to whatever big number you want them to be at any given moment, then what's the point of discussing anything?
Is this in reference to my comment? If so, I'm not seeing what you're getting at...