今年環球股市牛氣衝天，投資銀行高盛賺大錢，派一百六十五億美元花紅(平均每人四百多萬港元)，令中外傳媒一致鳴炮驚呼：勁！
外國財經博客cityboy出名夠mean，他撰文批評傳媒大驚小怪，當中不乏風涼話，但對記者心態的描述，非常精準。其文章節錄如下：
The media backlash about bonus envy happens every year. That’s understandable from journalists, they tend be poorly paid hacks who have chosen a career of gossip mongering. Nobody put a gun to their head and told them to write for a newspaper. What must really irk financial journalists is when they interview ‘rainmakers’ and dealmakers, and realise that those being interviewed are no smarter or harder working than they, but for an accident of fate they could easily be picking up a few million dollars.
Then come the unwholesome moanings of career politicans, about the unfairness and inequity of it all.The whole protestant work ethic, fair days pay for a fair days work nonsense is peddled out. Everyone suddenly turns into a socialist in the face of what is regarded as unwarranted largesse.The truth is that if everyone was paid a fair wage for a fair days work, then capitalism wouldn’t work. Its a zero sum game.There would be no one to exploit and therefore no margin to mark up. We would all be poor.
Contrary to popular thinking,bonuses do not need to be defended.There is nothing to defend.The general rule is the closer you work with money the more you get paid.It’s not fair, but neither is being struck by lightning. So why all the envy.
全文：http://randombanker.blogspot.com/2006/12/bonus-envy-is-it-worth-it.html
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