"I feel that a lot of the blame heaped upon the finance industry is unnecessarily antagonistic (and personal)."
This is clearly a response to the defensive, entitled, and holier-than-thou attitude the financial industry had in the wake of the 2008 crisis, not to mention the lack of consequences to finance directors or serious financial reform. They closed ranks, hard, which by necessity elevates the level of the attacks against them, which therefore seems antagonistic.
Tried talking to a banker about this stuff in 2009? Impossible to have a discussion not rife with blame-shifting.
This is clearly a response to the defensive, entitled, and holier-than-thou attitude the financial industry had in the wake of the 2008 crisis, not to mention the lack of consequences to finance directors or serious financial reform. They closed ranks, hard, which by necessity elevates the level of the attacks against them, which therefore seems antagonistic.
Tried talking to a banker about this stuff in 2009? Impossible to have a discussion not rife with blame-shifting.