{"id":14846,"date":"2012-04-29T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T14:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14846"},"modified":"2012-04-29T09:55:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T14:55:04","slug":"qotd-bankers-marxs-dream-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/29\/qotd-bankers-marxs-dream-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Bankers, Marx&#8217;s dream workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In a way bankers are Marx&#8217;s dream, it&#8217;s the workers getting the fruits of their labours. It&#8217;s funny that the left is usually angry at shareholders, for taking money out of companies and thereby bringing down workers&#8217; salaries. Yet with the banks they want shareholders to press the banks to do exactly that, and curb pay.<\/p>\n<p>Joris Luyendijk, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/joris-luyendijk-banking-blog\/2012\/apr\/28\/banks-accounts-external-auditor\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;External auditor: &#8216;Nobody at a bank can have a complete overview any more'&#8221;, <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, 2012-04-28<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a way bankers are Marx&#8217;s dream, it&#8217;s the workers getting the fruits of their labours. It&#8217;s funny that the left is usually angry at shareholders, for taking money out of companies and thereby bringing down workers&#8217; salaries. Yet with the banks they want shareholders to press the banks to do exactly that, and curb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,57,41],"tags":[436,780,95],"class_list":["post-14846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-banking","tag-communism","tag-jobs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Rs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14848,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14846\/revisions\/14848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}