Buddhist directs compassion towards bankers

[gtar100]

5. That's funny. :) But the sad fact is that they really are very human.

They represent the person who lets greed overtake their reasoning and emotions. I suppose it's possible to be a banker and do good work - the job is required for any type of system involving money. But the temptations have gotten the best of them. Their job is to manage the flow of money but they developed a system that siphons off more to themselves than their efforts can justify. They may be comfortable in this lifetime but they must cultivate a great deal of denial about their separateness with all other life in order to continue taking what is not rightfully theirs to take. That sort of path scares the hell out of me but they don't even blink an eye about it, and would probably have a hearty laugh at me for worrying about such things. They are betting their lives that they will never have to face the consequences of their decisions and the suffering they cause others. After all, the dead never rise up to complain about what's been done, right?