Answer: They both have a tough decision to make.
Bob Diamond, chief executive of Barclays, has been struggling with his difficult decision. The multi-millionaire can’t decide whether to take his £9m bonus or not. Tough one Bob! Happily after much soul searching and many discussions with fellow bankers, he has decided to accept.
I met another man with a difficult decision to make recently; whether to crawl on his belly along the floor of Indian train collecting rubbish in the hope of single rupee or whether to let his family go hungry. Tough one! Not much soul searching or long discussions went on before he made his decision and I can’t stop thinking about the humiliation.
It cannot be right for one man to pick up such an obscene bonus whilst another picks up rubbish for virtually nothing. I was in India recently visiting a grassroots charity that’s trying to give the poorest people a leg up out of the poverty trap, but that’s for another blog!
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Real life situations are very challenging and heart-breaking;
very few people really dare to look and learn.
I appreciate your sensibility.