{"id":4851,"date":"2012-07-13T18:55:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T22:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2012-07-13T18:55:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T22:55:11","slug":"why-our-elites-stink-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/13\/why-our-elites-stink-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Our Elites Stink &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>David Brooks<\/strong>: Today\u2019s elite is more talented and open but lacks a self-conscious leadership code. The language of meritocracy (how to succeed) has eclipsed the language of morality (how to be virtuous). Wall Street firms, for example, now hire on the basis of youth and brains, not experience and character. Most of their problems can be traced to this.<\/p>\n<p>If you read the e-mails from the Libor scandal you get the same sensation you get from reading the e-mails in so many recent scandals: these people are brats; they have no sense that they are guardians for an institution the world depends on; they have no consciousness of their larger social role&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/13\/opinion\/brooks-why-our-elites-stink.html?_r=1&amp;ref=global\">Why Our Elites Stink &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Comment:~ The first thing we need to teach college students is ethics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brooks: Today\u2019s elite is more talented and open but lacks a self-conscious leadership code. The language of meritocracy (how to succeed) has eclipsed the language of morality (how to be virtuous). Wall Street firms, for example, now hire on the basis of youth and brains, not experience and character. 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