“This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and bankers, a level of remuneration that is economically irrational since, as investigations in the US have demonstrated, it tends to be inversely proportional to the company's success.” LevelsPayCompanyOppositesManagersExcessInvestigationIrrationalBankersBourgeoisieRemuneration Author:Slavoj Žižek
“Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.” IfsMenLongHas BeensMadeCountryDoneStoriesGivenBusinessCompanyPracticeWrittenTypeStandardsConcernMethodCornersOilGuiltyExposedLong AgoEmployedScornSecrecyBankersOil CompaniesBusiness ManAcumenGrocersStandard Oil Book:The History of the Standard Oil Company Source: The History of the Standard Oil Company
“Now it's of peculiar interest to an Arab country that there is a company and a certain set of bankers who also finance the World Federation of Mental Health. ...and we see that although the KGB and so forth seems to be associated with the World Federation of Mental Health, their other organization in action seems to go back to Jewish Bankers.” WorldCountrySeemsActionCertainInterestCompanyOrganizationMental HealthFinancePeculiarBankersFederationKgb Author:L. Ron Hubbard