Always hungry is not a bonus:

Once on a walking safari in South Africa I almost became lunch for a charging lioness.  Now that it’s bonus season on Wall Street, I’d like to send a few bonus buccaneers on a walking African safari.  Not because I wish them on the poor lions, but because I wish they would learn something about the real jungle.

In the real jungle, animals are only nervous when lions are hungry because lions only hunt when they are hungry.  Only man is always hungry, because only man believes in scarcity to the extent that we behave as if a bonus in the bank is worth a crippled future.

I’m here today because lions aren’t inherently greedy.  They’re at the top of their food chain and yet they know when enough is enough.

That’s the jungle lesson I wish for Wall Street so that the rest of us mere mortals can be less nervous about our future.

I’m James McIntosh at nonsenseatwork.com

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