I'm not sure if it's gratifying or depressing (or even ironic considering how much money is stashed in Swiss bank accounts) but the good folks of Switzerland up and gave a big fuck you to their corporate leaders and voted for regulations that would allow shareholders to nix executive pay packages, outlaw golden parachutes, and set in place sanctions that could result in prison sentences for corporate executives who refuse to abide by the new laws.
Gratifying because there are people in this world who understand economic justice, that it's immoral for the few to succeed financially so grotesquely while the many fall farther behind while living paycheck to paycheck.
Depressing...because it's hard to imagine enough of our political leaders having the will to do the right thing, and such measures have as much chance of passage in America as I do of being voted the next Pope by the Conclave of Cardinals.
And it's already too late for that.
Peace,
emaycee
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