Af vef Der Spiegel:
„The crisis is man-made,“ claims banker Halla, 40, who like all Icelanders, is only addressed by her first name. „It’s always the same guys,“ she says. „Ninety-nine percent went to the same school, they drive the same cars, they wear the same suits and they have the same attitudes. They got us into this situation — and they had a lot of fun doing it,“ she says. Halla criticizes a system that focuses „aggressively and indiscriminately“ on the short-term maximization of profits, without any regard for losses, that is oriented on short-lived market prices and lucrative bonus payments. „It’s typical male behavior,“ says Halla, who compares it to a „penis competition“ — who has the biggest?
