When I watched the movie, Margin Call, I was pretty disturbed by the lack of informed decisions made by the bankers. One of the bankers stated that in banking there is "never a choice". This idea that things are decided automatically, without any discussion or thought was very scary to me and made the whole banking process seem unnecessarily risky. Similarly, going off of this idea that the banking process is just an automatic response, one banker said, "we just react and there's always a winner and a loser." This makes it seem like the bankers aren't in control of the situation and were never in control. It's a scary thought that at any moment the economy will either make us "winners" or "losers". It's even scarier when the bankers who are suppose to be monitoring everything are simply just reactors to the situation and not actively in control. And then this isn't even the worst part. The movie went on to suggest that some of the bankers don't even care about the assets that they monitor. As one banker says, "it's just money; it's made up". This type of ignorant attitude is the last quality I would want my banker to possess. It goes along with the theme that the bankers aren't really involved or in control of the situation, they are just by-standers who react automatically and without thought.
-Laura Simmons
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