They receive compensation in a situation in which the economy as a whole is circling round the drain.
Deadweight loss.
This is the reason that they give for which the wages of workers must not rise above the subsistence level. Because although it would benefit those workers, it would create a loss to society as a whole.
Deprive their ideas of value. And when they shit on the floor and expect society to clean it up for them, stick their damn noses in it and make them breath it in.
You City hacks are a drain on society, parasites that impede the ability of men and women who do create wealth and far better well being for society as a whole to live with dignity.
Societies in which wealth is redistribute from those who created it to ethically challenged financial sectors are worse of as a whole. It's nothing personal that their wages must be slashed, and that they must be placed on the streets en masse. It's neccesary for the well being of soceity.
Deadweight loss. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg