Modern economies are all about doing one thing, saying another, and keeping a cool head all year round.
We hate our employer, but enjoy getting our salaries at the end of the month and breaking sugar on the backs of our bosses – © Freepik
Exactly a month ago I got married at St Andrew’s Church in Didling [village du Sussex, au sud de l’Angleterre, ndt], in front of a pastor, my family and my friends. It was divine. However, as an atheist of the caliber of Hitchens [Christopher Hitchens, un polémiste américain, ndt]I had to fight a little qualm about being a hypocrite.
Pervasive hypocrisy
Luckily, the banking industry taught me to hold on in this kind of situation. Inconsistency and false hopes were part and parcel of the job. The bosses were lying to me eye to eye and we both knew it. The situation was never very clear and nothing was taken at face value. But everyone was working anyway.
The hypocrisy is everywhere, of course. But whereas in politics voters are thought to pay no attention to lies (saying something before doing the exact opposite), in the business world it seems like the dissonance that hypocrisy demands is easily assumed. .
How else to explain Jay Monahan’s impassive face on Tuesday when he announced that the PGA Tour [circuit de golf professionnel masculin se jouant principalement aux États-Unis, ndt] that he leads was now linked to Saudi Arabia? Last June, when asked about the alleged links between the kingdom and September 11, he had nevertheless replied: “two families of which I am […]
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2023-07-08 08:01:39
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