Just came across a George Monbiot piece in the Guardian discussing studies that suggest "traders and fund managers throughout Wall Street receive their massive remuneration for doing no better than would a chimpanzee flipping a coin."
It reminded me of a time, many years ago, when I spent my summer break at university working as a security guard at the Exhibition Centre in Glasgow. I rolled up to the newsagents one morning during a big business conference and queued up to buy my Guardian. As I stood there, I gradually became aware that I seemed to be the only person on the queue buying a broadsheet, as all the delegates seemed to have the Sun or the Daily Record tucked under their arm. That was something of an epiphany for me - the point at which I realised most of the people who run our country's economy are actually thick as sh*t.
