Michael James, inspired me to write another rant/commentary on the financial industry. He wrote about Mouths to Feed in the Financial Industry and it reminded me of a very funny monologue by Chris Rock: Bigger and Blacker (Amazon Link) about how Fathers don’t ask for much in life:
What does daddy get for his hard work? The big piece of chicken at dinner! My mamma would kill us if one of us ate the big piece of chicken by accident!
What does this have to do with the Financial System? Everybody in the financial system thinks they are Daddy, they all want the big piece of chicken.
- Mutual Fund managers want you to pay the front-end, back-end and high MER fees because they are doing that much work to invest for you. That is a whole chicken, not just part of it.
- Banks think they are the Daddy, just for taking care of your money. There are banks in Europe giving negative interest on your money. The money shrinks if you leave it in the bank.
- Any Cell Phone Company (in Canada) is your Daddy, how much do you think their service really costs, but they are making sure you get quality service.
- Internet Service Providers are plumbing, but they want a big piece of Chicken for the way they count your packets (and charge you if you use too many)
Let Daddy have that big financial piece of chicken? No way! They get enough, without taking the big piece of chicken too!
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