No Shame

Watching these banking and pharmaceutical CEOs testify before Congress about their shady practices is really depressing. How Wells Fargo executives can sit there and apologize and claim the fuckery they had going wasn't standard practice is mind-boggling. There weren't just a few rogue employees opening fake accounts for people, this tomfoolery was wide-spread in the company. And yet the former CEO walks away with a golden parachute worth millions and she might be eligible for a bonus on top of that? Pathetic. And people wonder why bankers are hated. Many folks are just barely scraping by or living one or two paychecks from poverty while people with the Wells Fargo bunch and the Mylan "EpiPen" CEO are reaping huge financial rewards for their bad behavior. But the Congressional hearings are a joke, too. Watching Congressmen and women publicly berate these CEOs won't change a thing. These folks aren't facing jail time for their bad business practices. They just sit there stone-faced during the hearings and then go back to living their lives. Many of these executives probably have no shame over what they've done either. I read somewhere that a lot of executives have very narcissistic and every psychopathic tendencies. I guess that's how they can mentally separate themselves from the trouble they cause for others.