{"id":249,"date":"2018-01-09T12:07:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T12:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/?p=249"},"modified":"2018-03-19T10:25:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T10:25:47","slug":"would-aristotle-find-fat-bonuses-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/2018\/01\/09\/would-aristotle-find-fat-bonuses-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Aristotle find fat bonuses gross?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an item in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/insight-opinion\/article\/1708023\/would-aristotle-find-fat-bonuses-gross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>South China Morning Post<\/em>, 9 Feb. 2015<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">:\u00a0<\/span>they asked our PI, Douglas Cairns, and other classicists what the attitude of ancient thinkers would have been to a particularly egregious example of the current tendency to distribute the rewards of success &#8212; and sometimes also of failure &#8212; with extreme bias towards those at the top of the organization. Check it out:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px\"><em>But just to be sure, I checked, asking a number of classics professors what the ancients might have thought of the merit of Pimco bonus situation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"v2-processed\" style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 30px\"><em>In turns out, the Greeks probably would have asked Bill to return that money.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/insight-opinion\/article\/1708023\/would-aristotle-find-fat-bonuses-gross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/insight-opinion\/article\/1708023\/would-aristotle-find-fat-bonuses-gross<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Featured image:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">\u00a0Jeff Blackler\/Rex\/Shutterstock via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/dec\/26\/the-guardian-view-on-capitalism-without-capital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an item in the\u00a0South China Morning Post, 9 Feb. 2015:\u00a0they asked our PI, Douglas Cairns, and other classicists what the attitude of ancient thinkers would have been to a particularly egregious example of the current tendency to distribute the rewards of success &#8212; and sometimes also of failure &#8212; with extreme bias towards &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/2018\/01\/09\/would-aristotle-find-fat-bonuses-gross\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Would Aristotle find fat bonuses gross?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[27,25,31,29,23,28,30,26,24],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","tag-aristophanes","tag-aristotle","tag-excess","tag-fat-bonus","tag-homer","tag-meritocracy","tag-money","tag-plato","tag-solon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/research.shca.ed.ac.uk\/honour-in-greece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}