Spare a few hundred for a burger?

During a dinner in a very expensive hotel restaurant in Buenos Aires I kept overhearing either a banker or a stock-broker boast about how easy it is to cheat the stupid masses out of their money. I heard the waiter give them their bill and a comment that ‘only 3 thousand dollars was cheap’,(this is about 25260.00 pesos).Besides wanting to make him a vegetable for the rest of his miserable life, what he was saying got me thinking about the ways that some make their money, like the economic vampires in our midst, like the bankers and the stockbrokers, traders, etc.
A working person toiling away on an automobile assembly line or in a restaurant kitchen must have found it difficult to understand how bankers and brokers who have brought the economies of entire countries to their knees made so much money simply by selling pieces of paper. When workers make cars, houses or meals, and when farmers produce food, they are producing something that people need and can use. But those who sell complex financial instruments do not produce anything tangible at all. Something doesn’t seem quite right about making money without producing a useful good or service that most people need. And, indeed, no society can survive if the only economic activity, or even the dominant activity, is lending and borrowing money.
The same can be said for buying already made things at one price and selling them at a much higher price. If the only economic activity is merchant trade, everyone would soon die because nothing is being produced. At its most fundamental level an economy is a system of production of at least some useful outputs. When so much labour is devoted to the buying and selling of pieces of paper with the sole aim of converting money into money, something profoundly irrational is taking place.
I wondered at this banker/ broker’s types of clientele; what do they do, should one be low on cash and want a burger…do they ask a stranger on some street, “Hey, buddy, can ya spare six-hundred and sixty-six dollars for a burger?” (The Douche Burger at 666Burger, NYC) Perhaps a ‘senior financial banker’ has run low because of his alimony payments will ask, "I hate to bother ya but, but could ya spare me 2 grand for a nice burger over at Mallie’s Sports Grill an’ Bar?” (Mallie’s Sports Grill and Bar in Detroit; their “Ridiculous Burger” is priced at $2000.00)
Perhaps an up and coming Jr. Stock trader in Las Vegas, just laid-of will soon ask a stranger outside the restaurant burger joint that serves the Fleur Burger for a ‘quick seventy bucks; or go for the better nutritious meal that includes a bottle of Chateau Petrus with the Fleur burger at a paltry price of five thousand dollars,US…as some laid off worker in Anytown takes his ‘macmeal’ with a bottle of Chateau Chevrolet ($1.00 a bottle) and eats behind a 7-11…nearly 2,000 people is the number of former members of the US Congress, conceptional staffers, Treasury Department and other US federal employees that were hired as lobbyists on behalf of the financial services sector since the start of 2009. It’s a wonder how people in the US put up with this level of corruption at the very heart of their so called democracy…(source: Center for Responsive Politics)
Apologies to all the semi educated and illiterate trailer park types that immediately resort to name calling like demented children on rampages brought about by topics you either can’t fathom let alone comprehend. Go back to the grade school out dropped out of and get an education before subjecting others to your neanderthal wit.