Yesterday the Guardian carried an excellent essay by George
Monbiot in which he highlights the clinically psychopathic characteristics of
senior managers and chief executives, and the feudal way in which they claim their
rewards, reminiscent of medieval dukes. He also quotes Daniel Kahneman’s study
of Wall Street fund managers, which found that their massively renumerated
performance was “no better than that of a chimpanzee flipping a coin”. And
meanwhile, over the last 30 years, the gap between the richest and poorest has
been increasing, keeping pace with the ever-greater trashing of the
planet in the name of economic growth. World leaders have failed spectacularly to make a difference, so maybe it's time to try the chimpanzees.
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