why do people think bankers are evil scum?

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Really only a very small subset of investment bankers, and top level managers/business leaders were responsible for the financial crisis.. the vast vast majority of bank employees had nothing at all to do with it.

My father works in a bank, and is a manager at quite a high level

Well that's not true is it? Northern Rock wasn't an investment bank. People working for banks top to bottom were involved in overextending credit. Hardly like top level managers took or decided on applications for liar loans.

Well that does make you entirely impartial.

I don't claim to be impartial.

"Hardly like top level managers took or decided on applications for liar loans"

Who do you think was setting the targets and the lending policies that would put pressure on lower level workers?

Sure, and who sought to overachieve against those targets for their own gain?

people who had families to support and didn't want to loose their jobs.

I am a banker and can confirm that i am an evil scumbag

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Because they are. Usury is a sin and most Bankers would sell their own granny just to make a few extra grand. Becoming richer at the expense of the poor. And they caused world wide recession in 2008. Which we are still paying for. All because of their greedy games. Most politicians are in league with them too. 150, 000 people dead in UK alone because of Tory austerity due to recession. Many Tories themselves are Bankers or are related to banking families. Lord Freud for example who said in 2014 that

why do people believe bankers are evil scum?

You have absolutely no idea what it is that most people in the financial sector do, do you?

You have absolutely no idea what it is that most people in the financial sector do, do you?