When you read about a shmarmy little French SALESMAN at goldman sachs who gets rewarded with bags of sweaty cash for using deceipt, cunning and subterfuge to sell toxic waste to whoever was foolish enought to buy it (and supposedly contributed to the reason our super fund crapped itself in recent years passed) and then compare that with the bonus we've just been paid for safely transporting 100's of 1000's of blissfully ignorant passengers (amongst them likely to have been the very same people selling the toxic waste), with professionalism, an intense duty of care and responsibility to the safety and comfort of economy, business and first class alike, it doesnt help my cynicism any.
The only silver lining I can grasp is at least it comes duty-free. Urgh!