Bankers pay has become bit of a Ponzi scheme Ed Balls (& Football Shame) Sense from Ed Balls and Vince Cable except I do not think that any footballer is worth £300k per week, especially since Manchester United like all other clubs treat their low paid staff with contempt and dont pay everyone a living wage. Wayne Rooney should be ashamed of himself for getting so much while so many get so little from the Club. Hat tip Observer :- Shadow chancellor echoes business secretary, saying most top executives and bankers would do the work for half the money Pay for bankers and top executives has become a bit of a Ponzi scheme and most of them would do the work for half the money, Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, has said. But the Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney was worth his reported £300,000 a week because of his exceptional talent, Balls said in an interview on BBC Radio 5 Lives Pienaars Politics on Sunday. Balls was responding to a comment from Vince Cable, the business secretary, who said he could not understand why bankers needed to earn £1m a year. Rooneys pay was understandable, Balls said. Theres only one Wayne Rooney and he plays for Manchester United, he could go anywhere in the world. Very-high salaries for exceptional entrepreneurs like the late Steve Jobs, whose iPhones are sold around the world, were also acceptable, he suggested. But Balls said he agreed with Cable about some bankers salaries being impossible to defend. In some parts of our economy – when its not a great idea or when its not the talent of Wayne Rooney – then you do think to yourself these massive multimillion-pound salaries, it feels like a bit of a Ponzi scheme, Balls said. It was time to get back to a bit of rationality, he continued. If somebody actually was to say stop a minute, lets stand back and say is this really sensible and rational, most of those people would do those jobs for half the money. Cable told the Observer: I dont understand why people need a million quid a year. Ive asked one or two of the more sympathetic bankers to explain it to me. The response has been: Its not that I need the money, it is because others get it so I should too. That is a ludicrous mindset. What on earth do these people think they are doing? grayee.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/bankers-pay-has-become-bit-of-ponzi.html
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:23:53 +0000
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