Greed is Good
Onlangs voor een habbekrats de dvd van Oliver Stone's "Wall Street" (1987) gescoord. Daarin spreekt beurshandelaar Gordon Gekko op een aandeelhoudersvergadering van papierbedrijf Teldar Paper profetische woorden:
"America, America has become a second-rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions. Now, in the days of the free market when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder.
The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake. Today, management has no stake in the company!"
Hij wordt onderbroken door topman Cromwell, die roept dat hij te ver gaat. Gekko vervolgt:
"Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out.
One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents."
