Did you hear about the Goldman Sachs ex-employee Greg Smith? If you didn't then you obviously weren't on Twitter or the newsfeeds yesterday...
It's funny how a sensationalist story of bad behaviours in part of a global banking institution can overwhelm the newsfeeds. To the extent that in all this hulabaloo many probably missed that there had been a 6.8 earthquake in Japan...
What makes the soundbites of an ex-employee of a bank more important than potential further catastrophe in Japan? I'm sure that along with many journalists we could all think of some good reason... but when I look at my kids it's not bankers ethics that I need to be worrying about is it?
I have a theory. Gossip and warmongering aside, could the reason be that much of the world wants to pick at the ethics of bankers as a way of not looking at their own?
I'm not taking a moral high ground here, but wasn't the noise on Twitter yesterday just the sound of thousands not looking in the mirror at themselves?
Just a theory....
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