this topic disturbs me a lot...
the guy has died.. a heart attack.. at his stressful job..
something like that.. not the first time, won't be the last if
people keep driving themselves so hard... it is sad and tragic...
it is even sadder that he leaves behind a family which seems to be
dependent on him.. that is sadness..
however, what disturbs me greatly is this... a man has died...
people around him are talking about "losses" "corrections" and all
that..
have we become so inhuman that the life of a man is secondary to
the "economic movements" ?
in a documentary i watched, a trader was talking about the 9/11
incident.. he was saying that when the planes crashed into the
towers, the floors were hushed for a while.. then there was
actually cheering because they knew that Gold would go through the
roof and those whose positions were short would make a
killing...
much later, during the making of the documentary, this trader
admitted with some shame that at that time, all of them felt that
it was something wonderful that had happened.. they were all aware
that people were dying but it never registered.. all they were
focussed on was trying to get some advantage from the atrocity and
how to leverage as much advantage and money as possible from the
event...
now looking at the posts made, are we Singaporeans on our way to
becoming as cynical and self-centred as those traders?
if so, isn't it a terrible world we are leaving to our children to
grow up in?
