A "Golden-Parachute" Irascible Banker
Throughout the dry seasons of history, bankers have been noted for their willingness to lend umbrellas at usurious rates of hire. This generous self-interest was an accepted part of their trade and well tolerated by communities the world over who looked to the after-life for equalization of fortune. With the accelerated growth of international, consumer credit, however, and the collapse of metaphysical notions of equalization of fortune, bankers in addition to suffering acute bonusitis, claimed a socially useful, quasi-metaphysical role in the extension of credit as an equality-creating mechanism. It is axiomatic that what is borrowed must be repaid and bankers keenly aware of their primary, ethological conditioning to preserve themselves before others were, during the early liquidity crisis of the twenty-first century, swift to recover their investments and jettison their priestly, credit-extending role. This admirable figure represents the "golden-parachute" chairman of a leading banking house.