Early 2010, a gathering of business leaders in Switzerland. Mounting anger with the banks among industrial chief executives, who are beginning to feel that the financial sector’s rich blend of incompetence and incontinence threatens to make the entire capitalist system unacceptable to the public. The nearly new chairman of UBS – the most egregious Swiss culprit – is present, a former government minister of impeccable unbankerly credentials. He explains that UBS can do nothing whatever to change its business model, or to reduce compensation substantially, without putting itself at a severe competitive disadvantage.
2010年初，一群商界领袖人物聚集到瑞士。对银行日益恼火的实业界首席执行官(CEO)们开始感觉到，金融业同时呈现出不胜任和不自制的特点，可能导致整套资本主义制度再也无法被公众接受。当时，瑞士最臭名昭著的罪魁祸首——瑞银(UBS)上任不久的董事长也在场，他曾是一名政府部长，具有无懈可击的“非银行家”履历。他解释道，瑞银根本不可能改变自身经营模式或者大幅调低薪酬水平，否则就会把自己置于非常不利的竞争地位。