Suicide Is A Guilty Plea
Every financial catastrophe is practically defined by executive suicide. The corporate elite either dump Wall Street’s finest jobs attached to a golden parachute or find themselves in a situation where death is the only escape from a life behind bars. In this suicidal economic climate, both fiscally and in practice, suicide is too easy of a guilty plea.
Maybe its the shame, or maybe its going out while you’re on top. Its hard to know what makes a wife, kids and the biggest home in the state a life worth leaving. These corporate executives had it all. Money bought them happiness.
Its all about OPM. Other people’s money.
You see, when the corporate world realizes their benefits come at the expense of stolen wealth from millions of people, the guilt comes out. So much guilt, in fact, that many executives take their life to escape the pain.
Could you be happy in a home afforded by taxpayer bailouts? Could you live knowing that your above average standard of living was due to a tax on a 60-hour a week worker at McDonalds?
Though there is never a reason for life to be lost over money, there is a price to be paid. If anything the relentless bailouts from government are hiding all the wrongdoing, or at least delaying it from public eye.
There is generally a very fitting result to poor performance. Getting fired! You lose your job and miss out on the luxuries you could previously afford.
But I do have a message for corporate executives: Main street doesn’t want you to give up that easy. We don’t want your life, we want you to live in government housing, the kind usually made of concrete floors and caged with iron bars.
