{"id":185613,"date":"2014-09-30T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/30\/the-wisest-thing-said-so-far-this-year\/"},"modified":"2014-09-30T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T00:01:00","slug":"the-wisest-thing-said-so-far-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/30\/the-wisest-thing-said-so-far-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wisest Thing Said so Far this Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/09\/29\/the_big_middle_class_rip_off_how_a_short_sale_taught_me_rich_peoples_ethics\/\">If regular Americans acted like corporations and the moneyed class, our country would collapse in a week from systemic theft, corruption and greed<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is going bankrupt for the 5<sup>th<\/sup> time, Richard Fuld is still a rich man, Goldman Sachs is still a going concern, airlines and other businesses routinely declare bankruptcy to cheat their workers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no surprise that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/topics\/economy\/are-wealthy-less-ethical\">recent studies have found the wealthy to be less ethical than the general populace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And when a deal goes bad? They just walk away.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the much of the obscene levels of wealth that have been accumulated, particularly by the MBA class, come from their monetizing our ethics and their lack thereof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If regular Americans acted like corporations and the moneyed class, our country would collapse in a week from systemic theft, corruption and greed. Donald Trump is going bankrupt for the 5th time, Richard Fuld is still a rich man, Goldman Sachs is still a going concern, airlines and other businesses routinely declare bankruptcy to cheat &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,963,969,1002,1003,1024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-donald-trump","category-evil","category-good-writing","category-philosophy","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}