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How many of the people who compain about bankers bonuses could do the job themselves?

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  • the.ciscokid
    the.ciscokid Posts: 273 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Bear in mind that for every trade there is normally a winner and a loser. Which do you think you would be?

    It appears to me that they all managed to lose, astonishingly, given there obvious astounding quality and calibre of these people. Of course Fred the Shred, and his ilk actually "won" financially though they "lost" with horrific social and economic consequences.

    Given that I am the one bailing them out, I would suggest I must be the "winner" and they must be the "losers".

    Nice pathetic personal attack by the way, very "winner" of you.
  • Hereward
    Hereward Posts: 1,198 Forumite
    kabayiri wrote: »
    What rubbish.

    So if I'm a surgeon and I 'win' when performing an operation, the patient 'loses'?

    Get a grip.

    No, you and the paitent win: the thing that is causing the poor health loses.

    As a banker: You and the customer win, the other party loses.
  • the.ciscokid
    the.ciscokid Posts: 273 Forumite
    Hereward wrote: »
    No, you and the paitent win: the thing that is causing the poor health loses.

    As a banker: You and the customer win, the other party loses.

    Where the other party is society/ the whole UK economy?.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    kabayiri wrote: »
    What rubbish.

    So if I'm a surgeon and I 'win' when performing an operation, the patient 'loses'?

    Get a grip.

    Bad analogy.

    The situation would be more like this:

    You are a surgeon and your patient needs a new heart.
    Another surgeon also has a patient that needs a new heart.
    There is only one suitable heart available and you use you influence, and negotiating skill to get the heart for your patient.
    Your patient and yourself are the winners.
    The other surgeon and his patient are the losers.
    See what I mean now.
  • kabayiri
    kabayiri Posts: 22,740 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    I guess you meant trade as in transaction, not profession?

    That's the trouble with the English language...and analogies :) . Open to interpretation.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    kabayiri wrote: »
    I guess you meant trade as in transaction, not profession?

    That's the trouble with the English language...and analogies :) . Open to interpretation.

    Sorry, yes.
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