Haha exactly. Accountability is key here; I think people want the corporate execs responsible for the wanton Wall Street activity until 2008 to be held accountable for their actions. As professionals, they should have seen it coming and put a stop to it; instead, it seemed to have been enouraged more and more. And how are normal citizens (non-experts) supposed to have a faith in a system that is incredibly complex to understand and was mis-used at the average joe's expense? I think that's where alot of the anger lies. People put trust in these experts, and then this happened.
I know at my job, people entrust us to provide them with a service because we're the experts; that's why they come to us. Although not legally binding, we have strict regulations from provincial associations and institutes about fees we can charge and the standard of work that needs to be accomplished. We could take short cuts and gauge here and there, but my firm has policies that that is not how we will conduct our business. And our clients thank us for that.
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