Americans are overwhelmingly disoriented with the financial sector, believing its members to be largely greedy, arrogant and unprincipled. These pre-existing attitudes probably fueled the successful Twitter account, @GSElevator, which supposedly chronicles conversations overheard in the elevator at Goldman Sachs.
Helmed by 34-year-old Texan John Lefevre, the account boasts 640,000 followers and earned Lefevre a six-figure sum for a book based on the tweets.
Insurance Business America picked out some of our favorites, which are alternately shocking and
amusing.
- Only Neanderthals resort to violence. I prefer crushing one’s spirit, hope, or ego.
- Poor people eat so much fast food you’d think their time was valuable.
- Vegetarian is an ancient derogatory term for an idiot who couldn’t fish or hunt.
- If there’s a hot chick behind me at the ATM, I’ll always leave my receipt in the machine so she can see the balance.
- Most people wouldn’t even be the main character in a movie about their own lives.
- You don’t feed wild animals b/c they become dependent and can’t fend for themselves. How’s it different for poor people?
- You can always tell which people are riding bikes for exercise and which ones are doing it because they can’t afford cars.
- I wear a brand new pair of socks every day. That’s probably my only indulgence. That, and watches…And wine.
- The lottery is just a way of taxing poor people who don’t know math.
- Am I the only person who rooted against Robin Hood, the world’s first thug communist?
