{"id":189853,"date":"2010-02-06T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/06\/why-people-hate-bankers\/"},"modified":"2010-02-06T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T23:50:00","slug":"why-people-hate-bankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/06\/why-people-hate-bankers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why People Hate Bankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because their systems are patently unfair.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, AIG, which is owned by the US government, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\/id\/34970556\">gave retention bonuses to employees who no longer work there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>A substantial number of AIG&#8217;s Financial Products employees set to get some $195 million in retention payments no longer work with the bailed out insurer, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that such behavior not only does not serve society, but it does not serve the share holders or the company.<\/p>\n<p>This is a crooked game, and it needs to be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going long on pitchforks and torches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because their systems are patently unfair. Case in point, AIG, which is owned by the US government, gave retention bonuses to employees who no longer work there: A substantial number of AIG&#8217;s Financial Products employees set to get some $195 million in retention payments no longer work with the bailed out insurer, sources familiar with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,975,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-employment","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189853"}],"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=189853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}