In the time I was mayor, I used to do meetings with City bankers and I’d often open by saying, ‘This isn’t the world I would have created . . .’ [Bankers’ bonuses are] like penis extensions, among a small league of men – mine is bigger than yours.

. . . The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

— The former (and hopefully future) Mayor of London Ken Livingston on the banksters and other captains of industry

(emphasis mine)

I think that this is an important thing to say.  One of the primary defenses of the banksters and the rest of the parasites on our economy is that their success is somehow the product of their virtue and ability.

This is a lie.  It has always been a law, and so long as we allow the myth that these folks are anything other than amoral winners of the genetic lottery, we grant them a legitimacy that they they do not deserve, and we do so at our own peril.