Quote from WallstYouth:
The problem is that many people seem to think that everyone working on Wall St. is handed a billion dollar portfolio to gamble away investorâs assets. Wall St. Employs many engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, physicist, and quants that build, develop and create many of the systems, algorithms, strategies and technology that rivals that of NASA and many major BIOMED firms today. Yet these smart and educated people are lumped into the finger blaming of what went on in our financial systems.
Most of these companies collapse because they are run by CEOâs who have no idea what their traders are doing.. It only takes a very few at the top who make very risky business decisions to bring down an entire firm.
Taking bonuses away from many of the employees today would accomplish absolutely nothing in fact it would possibly sink us further into recession. The economy will only recover when our financial system has fully recovered and the only way to truly do that is by retaining talented people to fix it, and you donât do that by taking away their bonuses.
That all may be true, but the PRODUCT being produced (like CDS') are no longer in demand. As far as workers suffering because of decisions by higher-ups - that happens all the time. When a factory screws up because of a bad exec decision, the factory goes bust and the workers get kicked to the street. Maybe a new factory will have smarter execs. That's capitalism.
