Today’s Financial Times has a column on the ethical responsibility of a London banker who received a bonus from a U.S. bank bailed out by taxpayers. There are a number of suggestions–give the bonus back, send it to the government, buy a Porsche–but one reader anecdote suggests that the bailout may also be helping the comics industry:
My husband–whose bonus is mere couple of hundred pounds–spent it on Batman comics and sent them to a children’s ward in New York, which I thought was a really nice touch. Mind you–he’s a good man. If it was my couple of hundred pounds, I would have spent it on shoes.
February 5th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
The asshole part of me wonders if he bought some current stuff, and the effect Grant Morrison’s Batman will have on those kids.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Dear all, no offence, but i persnoally feel, before seeking a bailout, would it not be in order, that the company seeking a financial package / bailout from the public money, in the first place cut down all its flambount expenditures, like business class tickets, 5/7 star hotel stays, super luxury cars, etc to its top executives, CEO’s, directors / promotors, etc.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:22 am
What a cruel man! Not the banker guy but the other one. The poor kids will need to get induced coma’s for there little brains to cope with Batman RIP! What I fear even more is, if it was issues of All Star Batman and Robin, these poor kids will need to be moved to the psychiatric ward after reading.