As I was going through the list I still don't feel any sympathy for these bankers.
The whole idea of budgeting for the majority of people is to make do with seemingly limited resources. It's what everyone does to manage their own money.
Why can't someone who is supposed to manage everyones money practice a little self restraint?
It's hard to tell, because I've seen a lot of "lifestyle" articles in the Times that seem pitched to appeal to people with seven-figure incomes.
E.g., there was a cover story in the NYT Magazine a few months back about surrogate motherhood, by a woman who was married to an investment banker, and not only dropped $25K to have another woman gestate her baby but hired a nanny--excuse me, a "baby nurse"--to care for the kid. Not that there's anything wrong with either one, but I'd be embarrassed to have my face in the foreground of this picture:
The whole idea of budgeting for the majority of people is to make do with seemingly limited resources. It's what everyone does to manage their own money.
Why can't someone who is supposed to manage everyones money practice a little self restraint?