As you may have noted, J.P. Morgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon popped into town yesterday to give a little pep talk and pointers to the Portland Business Alliance (Hmmm… how can the rich get richer?) and the peeps at Occupy Portland screamed and yelled at them for awhile, which made everybody really nervous.
Anyway, the Portland Business Journal interviewed Dimon afterward, and asked him what he thought of the Occupy movement.

“I read a tremendous amount. My reaction is not to have a knee-jerk reaction. I agree with some of the points. But indiscriminate blame of everybody is not the right thing for anybody. And I think most people would agree with me if they thought about it for a moment.”

Hmm. Okay. Fine. We’ll think about it for a moment.
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Moment up yet? No? Okay.
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Okay! Moment’s up! LET’S VOTE.

Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)

4 replies on “Chase CEO Thinks You Agree with Him. DO YOU??”

  1. I disagree with so much of what his company does worldwide and in our own country, and what they’ve been historically involved in, but I do think he’s right in one way – blaming people instead of the instinct of greed that we’re all susceptible to when we have a lot of a material good to lose doesn’t make sense. Occupy should be encouraging people to examine that instinct and nip it in the bud to create a bottom-up revolution of human nature instead of using this arbitrary “1%” distinction and making this into a class war. We’re all the 100%, and 100% of us have a proclivity towards greed, and it just happens that some of us currently own/control more resources and therefore have more effect on the rest of us with the choices they make when it comes to what to do with those resources.

  2. I don’t know enough about the situation to judge this person. If he’s guilty of a crime, he ought to be held accountable by our government. Otherwise, being mad at him because he’s rich seems a bit pointless.

  4. I agree — I am blame his political friends for bailing them out instead of letting an orderly bankruptcy of the financial system occur.

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