Hi All,
[rant mode enabled] Just one word is needed to describe this:
Obscene. It cannot be justified. Period.
As others have noted, individuals like this are selected on the basis that they have no soul but more importantly,
no conscience at all.
They are hired by people near the top of organisations who still have a semblance of conscience and can't be rid of it. That semblance of conscience won't allow them to make the type of absolutely ruthless decisions that require a complete and utter absence of conscience.The people who hire them are now able to sleep at night because they can rationalise any "collateral damage" done along the way to achieving an objective by saying to themselves -- "Well I didn't do it, he did".
The sole objective of these types is the bottom line -- no matter the cost to anything or anybody that stands in the way. Nothing else is relevant except the bottom line.
I agree with most of Humayan's thoughts except this:
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Originally Posted by Octane
They are driven by greed and the green is all that matters.
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I don't agree they are driven by greed. This high up the money is almost (but not quite) irrelevant. On their "way up" the food chain, they have almost certainly already "earned" more money than they can ever spend.
Instead these types are completely driven by power, the need to retain it and to exercise it. Remember Orwell's 1984? "
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
The size of the "pay-packet" is just an outward sign to the other similar types that they wield "X" amount of power. The actual amount of money is irrelevant to their lifestyle. They haven't a hope of spending a 1/10th of it and they know that too.
All it says is "I'm this powerful", that's all. My what-chama-call-it is this big and my "soul" is this microscopically small.
Actually, the "pay-packet" serves just one other small purpose: it ensures the recipient is completely divorced from the reality that the other 99.99999999% of us live. Divorced from that reality, there is even less chance that "conscience" will get in the way because for these individuals, we are almost part of another world that doesn't really exist to them.
Not that that is in any way a justification, it is in fact the exact opposite.
We have a "minimum wage" in most of the industrialized world. Why isn't there a "maximum wage"?
One of the first ones up against the wall when the revolution comes I say ...
[rant mode disabled]
Best,
Les D