by
n+1
(editor)
[...] Even the banker with a humanitarian conscience will ultimately behave like the greediest scrooge because banking is not a posture of the spirit but a role in an economic order. If you depart from the role, the system’s many representatives, playing their respective roles, will find another banker. [...]
this is a common enough adage but i really like the light skewering in the phrasing 'posture of the spirit' lol