Goldman Sachs Employees Take Boxing Lessons

Why are physically weak people with intelligence looked down on. I personally have nothing but respect for these professional bankers as they are intelligent, contributing members of society. So what if they are nerds?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syhb3z4pTFQ
This was one of the top rated comment on a finance website when this video was posted:

 

Many bankers are crooks pure and simple.

 

A martial arts education can be a great thing for building confidence, self-respect and respect for others, and nothing makes you feel humble quite like getting choked out/thrown by people half your size on a weekly basis. Instructor seemed like a bit of a twat tbh, but an editor can do that.

I think its less of a case of weak/intelligent people being looked down on and more about cultural capital. Wearing a studded leather jacket might get you some respect at, say, a metal gig, but its not going to go down so well at the country club. similarly being able to design world-class financial software or predict market trends might earn you millions and the respect of your peers on wall street, but no-one gives a shit in a traditional boxing gym. It's not that these things are looked down on across the board, just that they are only valuable in certain contexts.

I think it's a healthy thing to be reminded that the things that you base your status on can be rendered meaningless so easily.

 

Young Neil DeGrasse Tyson disagrees.

 

So does Oliver Sacks

 

The funny thing is, the ones most likely to be crooks are likely to be the High Street ones who sell your gran something like debt consolidation or pensions, for a £100 bonus.

Whilst Goldman Sachs have crooks too, and vile little twats, they're probably less likely to be scammers on a day to day basis.
Just my view.

 

I'm thinking that these professional CROOKED THIEVING LEECHES, that make billions of dollars of the hard work of others who barely scrape by, probably want to learn some self defense.

 

They're preparing for the mob! The awareness is growing!

 

that was definitely my take on it. A promising amateur career cut short by an injury and now he wanders around his gym treating paying customers with utter contempt. The most telling section was him taking the piss out of the guy putting a hand-wrap on incorrectly "you didn't tell me how to do it", what a twat.

 

All are. Money is goddamned imaginary and banking is inherently a scam which creates 95 of that imaginary money is created; the scam only works when people have confidence in it.

The system which our society is built on is a confidence con.

 

Can you tell that to my rentman?

 

When HSBC were penalized for laundering money for a Mexican drug cartel, I don't think that had much to do with their high street operations. Goldman Sachs were deliberately selling stocks they knew to be unsound prior to the 2007 crunch. The list of banking irregularities on a high level goes on and on. And if they get caught out, they throw some low level trader to the wolves claiming they acted without knowledge higher up, and are usually given a derisory fine, far less than the illicit profits their particular scam has netted.

 

i wish i had a stronger imagination...