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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
Yes of course many people would be willing to drive tubes for that salary, but many people would also be willing to do CityBoys' jobs for a lot less than they're paid, so what does that prove? Would you be willing to take a 40% pay cut (which is what you're suggesting for tube drivers)?
Well yeah, sure they would, but they're neither capable nor qualified.
If someone who *was* capable and qualified was willing to be the CRO of a tier 1 bank for £30,000 a year, they'd let him. After all, aren't these banks the most unscrupulous, profiteering, morally corrupt institutions ever?
Everyone is qualified to be a tube driver just like everyone is qualified to scrub a toilet for a living.
That's why the Tube unions restrict applications from outsiders (and of course, immigrants and essentially non-UK EU citizens by default) to artificially inflate the price of their labour. In a free market they'd earn about 20k like a bus driver.
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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
Meanwhile, back in the underground, tube drivers aren't playing any part in a banking crisis.
Your letting your bias show. If you think the vast majority of people in the UK's banking sector aren't relatively well-paid but really perfectly ordinary working people then that's on you.
Put it this way, I certainly don't feel a trace of guilt given that you're fully in support of tube drivers extracting as much as they can out of the general public because they wear a high-vis rather than a suit & tie (particularly as the function of risk management is basically to be Mr Popular and torpedo deals left right and centre)
Last edited by CityBoy2006; 06-10-2016 at 09:42 AM.