Blessed are the Money Changers

(Image from a painting displayed at the Riverview Community Bank).

Matt Taibbi’s latest pounds on Goldman Sachs international adviser Brian Griffiths speaking at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London:

“The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral, whose 365-feet-high dome towers over the City, London’s financial district. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieving greater prosperity and opportunity for all.” (via Bloomberg)

Taiibi’s rant mostly excoriates a particular kind of rich ideologue raised from birth behind walls built by rich ancestors, surrounded by the like minded, and insulated from consequences so that the person never has to let experience intrude upon theory; usually theory that dresses up greed as love and taking as sharing.