Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 03, 2011
Transcript:
Boy: Hope! Student: I hope I do something of value well. Graduate: I hope to do something of value well and be fairly paid. Worker: I'd like to be paid for doing something of value fairly well. Manager: I want to be valued and paid fairly well for doing something. Executive: I deserve to be paid well for doing something of no value! I demand to be paid obscenely well for destroying value! Always hold on to your values! A banker's progress.
The original quotation was:
“Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
There, doesn’t that feel better?