Courtesy of Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner
If the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes were to go out with his lantern in search of an honest many today, a survey of Wall Street executives on workplace conduct suggests he might have to look elsewhere.
A quarter of Wall Street executives see wrongdoing as a key to success, according to a survey by whistleblower law firm Labaton Sucharow released on Tuesday.
In a survey of 500 senior executives in the United States and the UK, 26 percent of respondents said they had observed or had firsthand knowledge of wrongdoing in the workplace, while 24 percent said they believed financial services professionals may need to engage in unethical or illegal conduct to be successful.
Sixteen percent of respondents said they would commit insider trading if they could get away with it, according to Labaton Sucharow. And 30 percent said their compensation plans created pressure to compromise ethical standards or violate the law.
via Many Wall Street executives says wrongdoing is necessary: survey | Reuters.
There are two types of people who now constitute the majority of those in the corporatist structure. The rise of sociopaths to positions of power and control, the propaganda they preach, and the example they set has led to a society that no longer knows or cares about the difference between right and wrong. There are simply too many who do not know the difference or who know but do not care.
This degeneracy is the result of the 1982 corporatist coup in the US that the solidified the criminal corporate syndicate’s control of the government, leading ultimately to its infiltration and corrupting of other Western governments.
The corruption and obfuscation of moral values has led us to a place where we as a rule never prosecute financial criminality as long as it is perpetrated on a large enough scale by people at the highest levels of the criminal gangs who control the government. There is no broad scale societal revulsion at Wall Street’s behavior, because so many of us have engaged in similar behaviors of lying and cheating, and think that it’s ok or excusable if it advances our personal interests.
The machine’s propaganda and its leadership by example has led society to the point where lying and cheating are considered such normal behaviors that we find nothing wrong with it. Such behavior is so ingrained in our psyches as normal behaviors in everyday life that we see not enough evidence of evil in a pathological liar of a mother, where there was overwhelming evidence that she had something to do with the child’s death, that we cannot convict her of a crime.
If 12 jurors could not convict Casey Anthony of a crime, then we certainly cannot prosecute the wrongdoing of the vast criminal networks that dominate and pollute our business, civic, and governmental institutions. We will slowly drown in a cesspool of lies, cheating, fraud, and manipulation, all the while never realizing that we have been brainwashed into accepting wrongdoing and evil as normal.
-Lee Adler
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