It’s hard to watch the news without hearing all about Goldman Sachs. It’s almost enough to make you wish for another Tiger Woods sex scandal, or some new lurid developments in the Amanda Knox case, or a Jon and Kate reconcilation, or maybe some sort of record-breaking “enneamom.”
Nonetheless, it seemed worth investigating whether there was any sort of religious angle, because it seems like there always is. And sure enough:
Lloyd Blankfein, the firm’s chief executive officer, told London’s Sunday Times last fall that he is just a banker “doing God’s work.”
Is Goldman Sachs just “doing God’s work”? I made a little table so we can check:
| earned $3.46 billion in most recent quarter | earns almost this much in Germany alone! |
| gets alumni into influential government positions | gets alumni into influential government positions |
| helped provoke subprime housing crisis | helped provoke all-encompassing housing crisis |
| under assault by the SEC | under assault by a federal judge |
| helped fuel the dot-com bubble | helped fuel the loaves and fishes bubble |
| minions working to destroy civilization | minions working to destroy civilization |
Indeed, it looks like they pretty much are doing god’s work. I guess that means I need to add a new chapter to the book.
