Irate "Wall Street" Will Trim Its Own Hedges
The supposed e-mail from an angry Wall Street (it speaks with one voice, you know) which New York reports is “allegedly” making the rounds today, seems almost too good to be true. One might even be tempted to suggest that it was made up to inspire further animus toward the financial services sector that took such careless risks with our economy. Still, genuine or not, the entitled tone is pretty accurate. And threatening!
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.
If Wall Street scoops up all those sweet unionized jobs, what then? It’s the reference to landscaping that actually has me worried that there might be more to this than some kind of a prank. The market knows that we’re sending all our landscapers back to their country of origins; if it’s willing to pick up the slack in the industries formerly known as Work Americans Refuse To Do For Themselves, just how fucked are the rest of us? Are we going to have to start taking in laundry because some asshole from Merrill is willing to paint his own house? Maybe we should just give these people what they want and not bring it up again!