I completely get the notion the interview with former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein is really old. But I didn’t find any explanation of this on the internet so I have to carry it out myself.
No matter what kind of clientelism (and human society is ridden with patron-client relationships) it is (whether religious one: Catholic super-rich interest groups, Jewish super-rich interest groups), one must admit the bank is one of the most powerful organizations on this planet.
So here we go:
1. The world is deterministic, so their actions are actions of God (impersonal God, just Spinoza’s God of natural laws)
2. Everyone in their position would do it the same way, either morally or not, so it’s God’s work (it cannot be done different way) – if they didn’t do it that way, their competitors would have taken the advantage
3. Theological determinism (every action is an action of God)
4. We have no free will (this overlaps with “World is deterministic” or that the world is inter-deterministic) – therefore God’s work
5. The world is deterministic, but they have free will but still must act immorally otherwise their competitors take advantage
6. He is a fatalist (magical force controlling our fate – in his world-view – a God)
7. Theistic God makes everything possible, therefore doing his job
8. We are just infantrymen (God is above, we are doing his job)
9. He really believes in a personal God, so they do his job (I find this highly unlikely)
10. We are Jews (if you look at the top echelon of the bank, you will find only Jewish names, and (I am really sorry) Jewish faces (just like Germans, and French look differently)
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