Class Warfare Email Circulated By Wall Street Traders
This one pretty much speaks for itself. Calling all pitchforkers, please proceed with caution after reading. Violence is not the correct response to this bit of insanity. Laughter and reform will suffice.
Showed up in my inbox this weekend. I've seen it posted elsewhere, so it appears to be legitimate.
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"We are Wall Street. It's our job to make money. Whether it's a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn't matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn't hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyone's 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I've never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas.
Well now the market crapped out, & even though it has come back somewhat, the government and the average Joes are still looking for a scapegoat. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well, here we are.
Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you're only going to hurt yourselves. What's going to happen when we can't find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We're going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work till 10pm or later. We're used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We don't take an hour or more for a lunch break. We don't demand a union. We don't retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we'll eat that.
For years teachers and other unionized labor have had us fooled. We were too busy working to notice. Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? We're going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are so-o-o-o underpaid for building the youth of America. Say goodbye to your overtime and double time and a half. I'll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much.
So now that we're going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: we're going to stop buying the new 80k car, we aren't going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. We're going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars with a garden hose in our driveways. Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours.
The difference is, you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee might get their way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but it's really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat asses land directly on the middle class of America and knock them to the bottom.
We aren't dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama & his administration are making Joe Mainstreet our food supply…will he? and will they?"
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The writer misperceives the anger. We've spent 16 months chronicling the disconnect. I'll publish your responses.
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Response from Dan F. (received by email)
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To my brothers whose job it is to make "money" on Wall Street,
Wall Street is actually just a place in Manhattan, New York. It's a street, a linear stretch of concrete with large, impressive buildings on it. There are many places like it all over this fine planet.
I know, I know, it sounds pedantic. You are clearly using the term 'Wall Street' to denote a group of people, a group of people to whom you evidently feel strong association. Tribal mentality is not something novel to our times. In fact, it's got us to where we are today.
I really don't mean to deconstruct your world. I mean to deconstruct ours. You are human beings, just like the rest of us. You, like us, are the product of this society, which rewards greed. Perhaps you were encouraged to study hard, or perhaps your parents pulled some societal strings, in order for you to achieve your position within our society. Furthermore, the masses' reliance on the fiat currencies and commodities you trade in every day, could make you apt to perceive yourself as fairly important within the grand scheme of things. However, just like our self-perception vs. others' perceptions of us, what we perceive money to be, and what it actually is, does matter. Lest we believe ourselves to be wealthier, or smarter, than we really are, and our notion of reality warps around our ego.
My bets are that many of us will suffer, starve and die as the current financial system collapses. What they used to do for a living (i.e. to earn sufficient fiat currency credits in order to purchase the nutrition they needed to survive) is of no relevance. It certainly does not help us see our situation any more clearly.
There has never been a more pressing time for us all to work together for the benefit of all species on this earth. You could call this Altruism. You could also call it Ecology. Either way, we desperately need to move beyond the paradigm of 'them and us' - whether we are able to grasp this notion intellectually, or on a more experiential level, I'm not sure that emails like the one you are distributing contribute positively to our predicament. For too long we've been divided and conquered by powers far beyond anything even the brightest luminaries of Wall Street could even begin to fathom. If we continue to compare, and then inexorably to squabble, many of us will perish, while squabbling. What a terrible way to go. Better to perish in peace, surely?
I'm not sure who, if anybody, will read this. But please understand that there is nothing to fear, now or in the future. There is no division between you and me. My wealth isn't dependent on your actions, it's based on a deep understanding of Nature. I grow my own food. In fact, I grow a surplus so that I can share it with you should you ever turn up at my door hungry and there's no landscaping to be done! I appreciate that the values I describe may sound as naive to you as your 'them and us / f*ck you buddy' email does to me.
We have been born into a world of scarcity, acquisitiveness, violence and aggression. Generations, like us, have all played our part. We need to take collective responsibility for the mess we are in.
I look forward to sharing my leek and goat's cheese quiche with you some day. Until then, given your strong allegiance to "Wall Street" and your hugely outnumbered position, combine this with the historical precedent of human beings externalizing their shortcomings on to human scapegoats based on their stated allegiances, I would caution you before sending any more emails that play into the hands of would-be aggressors.
Peace,
Dan F.
Gabriola Island, BC
May 3, 2010 at 1:34 PM
Reader Comments (11)
one that thinks i make 85 k for 8 months shows how out of touch they are.No you fucking water head you will make
8.50 a hour and eat cat food while living in the hood.
I would love for one of these people try and jump in and do what most of us do with no exp,
I think they should have threatened us with taking porn jobs as we all know they can fuck everyone.
Got to go now, going to be late for my private flying lessons. You never know when knowing how to fly a small plane will come in handy that day I snap!
P.S. I read TheChive.com IMMEDIATELY after reading DailyBail, humor (and pretty girls) is the best antidote for the insanity we are seeing.
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me too..perfect...
Screwing around on your wife with your secretary is not what we would call working till 10pm or later neither. You are right though, you do not retire at 50 with a pension, you take a golden parachute to leave after you have screwed up a company in your own interest, the younger the better, that is your mantra.
Besides, what makes you think you can take other peoples jobs, in the real world, you need things called qualifications and degrees for you to be able to even be interviewed. In your world, you merely have to act like you won’t suck a cock, but then graciously hold your masters cock in your mouth while being driven down a long bumpy road, till the swelling goes down. It is after all, just skin, right? If you can lick your arm, you can do that, right? All for the opportunity to push fake and fraudulent paper just to benefit yourself.
You do not kill what you eat, it would require effort, and getting your hands dirty, which you hate. You do not grow your food, because that to requires skills, and your HOA wouldn’t allow it, besides, your friends and neighbors would think you were on hard times, and mock you for not being as successful as you have portrayed yourself to be. So you just keep pretending you are the mighty hunter/ gatherer as you sneak through the grocery garden/ jungle gathering your veggies and hunting the most dangerous game, steaks wrapped in plastic, for your protection of course. And as you drive home you happily beat your meat, pretending you are a cowboy living off the land, driving your cattle down the Chisholm trail.
As to taking my food, come on over and try it. I guarantee you do not have the skills to pull that off. I will even have your favorite meal on the table to entice your egotistical ass, this would amuse me in ways you cannot fathom…
The only teaching you would be good at is as an example in an ethics class for what not to be.
I do not worry about you spending habits either, I have family like you, they only buy foreign, like your 80k import car, which is a direct assault on America.
“ We aren't dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama & his administration are making Joe Mainstreet our food supply…”
I am so glad you state publicly that you are indeed a cannibal, and everything you touch, you destroy with your whoring ways and lusts for globalism, etc.
I will have prime rib this weekend, if you are feeling randy, come and try to take it gimp boy. Then we may have long pig for dessert, and with a little luck, the elusive morel…
You are right JTS, they would be good at porn, they would just have to pretend they are on that long bumpy road…
To feel good about themselves.
"I'd pay money to watch those fruitcakes who testified last week landscape for one day."
They would first have to get together for a lavish meeting in a resort somewhere for a week, at our expense, to figure out which end of the rake and shovel to use.
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take away from them the power to create money and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money."
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Sir Josiah Stamp
(1880-1941) President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the second richest man in Britain
Speaking at the Commencement Address of the University of Texas in 1927
“The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers..... The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government. Money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power."
Abraham Lincoln Senate document 23, Page 91. 1865
"If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in North America, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe."
Hazard Circular - London Times 1865.
You have proudly chosen your poison gimp boy, and I have chosen mine. Now come attempt to steal from me mighty hunter/ gatherer, as you proudly profess, of course.
hunting ground.Hey wall street day .Im in LOL
Only way in is the front door, I'll leave the light on for them. I would hate for them to meet the things that go bump in the night...
They missed a good dinner Sunday.