Bankers…. I think they are fantastic. Well, at least they can never say no one ever stuck up for them in their time in need.

As party conference season is under way, we are likely to hear comments from a range of politicians saying how much they are going to ‘rein in the bankers’ and put controls on the ‘spivs and gamblers’.

There are going to be promises about how times have changed and the big money men can expect to be put in their place by new laws and regulations.

But as we all know much of this is just nothing more than papering over the cracks. What we have to realise is that when it comes to money, people are generally greedy.

If many of us could find a way of making more money legally then we would do it. The system encourages us all and gives us the opportunity to make money. It then wants us to spend all that money on a vast array of useless products we don’t honestly need. We want them but don’t need them.

And if I was a banker and I had worked in a system that expected me to make a profit, I would have to do just that. Somewhere down the line the line, that word ‘morals’ would be used to make me feel bad.

But I would know that deep down that word ‘profit’ matters more, as that is what I was employed to do.

This might seem a tad pessimistic but the system wins – it always wins. Doesn’t mean I want another system, but hey what are going to do?

We already live in world where big companies are rewarded for exploiting populations and cultures for their own gain. Just because we don’t see this through the vast amount spent on marketing and re-branding does not mean it does not exist.

The fact of the matter is we can criticise how these companies behave, but we can’t live without them for one moment.

The system says make money. It does not say make money and feel bad about it later.

Making a bunch of bankers the scapegoats for causing widespread hardship and suffering is easy.

Yet, it does not take a genius to work out that in years to come there will be rich folk making laws for other rich folk and poor folk paying taxes.