Advice to all Bankers

Greed has its limitations! We brought nothing into this world and won’t be able to take anything out from it but ourselves when we leave this Earth, so why obsess with material wealth, eh?

By Stanley Collymore

 

It’s our money that quite voluntarily we entrust you with

to safely and prudently look after as well as sagaciously

invest on our personal behalf in the expectation that

you will judiciously do all these things, entirely

cognisant at the same time of both the natural

as well as the possible unforeseen variables

which can and do occasionally occur as

spoilers of these laudable enterprises

we willingly subscribe to, and

which individually as well

as jointly we hope to

benefit from.

 

However, despite all you sanctimonious rhetoric and

grandstanding and the holier than thou attitudes

you pompously strut around with pretending to

be entirely above reproach when evidently

you’re not, we who’re your clients are

none the less decidedly far from

impressed or convinced either by your verbose

and obfuscating remarks or your calculated

actions. So why don’t you clean up your

act, start behaving like normal human

beings and not the plundering pirates

you clearly are yet try so hard to

convince us that you aren’t?

 

Ethical conduct doesn’t come easy for those who’ve

never been exposed to it or have been taught that

it doesn’t matter I know, but all the same

without it we would all be condemned

to a cut-throat existence where the

baser instincts of mankind would

always prevail. But is that what you really

want if it also meant that you were then

to recurrently find yourselves equally

helpless as we are with you on the

receiving end of those much

stronger and nastier

than you are?

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

31 August 2013.