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How interesting this is to me. A 'generation to change' is pretty much the exact thing I heard a senior executive of the retail wing of a rather large bank spout in his pep-talk to sycophantic staff.
This would be about two years ago and I was at this event in a technical capacity. During his pre-Dinner address, this fella said that we (meaning the banking industry) would have to 'wait for this current generation to pass' before things would 'return to as they were'. The man was basically saying that everyone affected by the financial crash - and by extension those of us who suffered at the hands of the banks - would have to die off and be forgotten and that the younger generation coming through would, on the whole, not remember the crisis so that the banks could get back to doing what they do best: make money for themselves under dubious practices.
I looked at this man and his adoring acolytes, grinning, smiling and simpering, glasses of wine to hand and for a few brief seconds I hated everyone of them in that room with such a passion that I couldn't wait to leave.
A generation to change, all right. But before I pass I will know that I put that man and his ilk in their place and stood up against them.
How interesting this is to me. A 'generation to change' is pretty much the exact thing I heard a senior executive of the retail wing of a rather large bank spout in his pep-talk to sycophantic staff.
This would be about two years ago and I was at this event in a technical capacity. During his pre-Dinner address, this fella said that we (meaning the banking industry) would have to 'wait for this current generation to pass' before things would 'return to as they were'. The man was basically saying that everyone affected by the financial crash - and by extension those of us who suffered at the hands of the banks - would have to die off and be forgotten and that the younger generation coming through would, on the whole, not remember the crisis so that the banks could get back to doing what they do best: make money for themselves under dubious practices.
I looked at this man and his adoring acolytes, grinning, smiling and simpering, glasses of wine to hand and for a few brief seconds I hated everyone of them in that room with such a passion that I couldn't wait to leave.
A generation to change, all right. But before I pass I will know that I put that man and his ilk in their place and stood up against them.
