&gt; IMO this is wrong: Most any banker can become a garbageman. They are way overpaid, that&#x27;s why there is a lottery for the jobs. Is the reverse true?<p>The article actually states exactly this as part of it&#x27;s &quot;bullshit jobs&quot; discussion.<p>&gt; Relying on strike time to tragedy is complete BS. As we saw in 2007&#x2F;8 when banker messed up the consequences are indeed harsh.<p>You&#x27;re mixing up a strike with a very complex series of events that can arguably be described somewhere on a scale between &quot;messed up&quot; and &quot;maliciously and fraudulently manipulated markets for their own profiteering at the expense of everyone else&quot;. However, determining exactly where on that scale they sit is a much bigger discussion than HN allows in a comment. Eitherway, the article again compares a garbage collection strike with a banking strike, which is a fairer comparison, and suggests that the biggest losers from that strike were the bankers.