For me, this was the image that most sticks in the mind: bankers jostling with each other to liquidate their positions on pre-paid vending cards and turn them into sugar, caramel and fat.
Here was the whole story writ in miniature. Panic, desperation, pettiness and every man for himself. These bankers had lost their livelihoods and were saying goodbye to colleagues, and their knee-jerk response on leaving the office was to storm the vending machines.
"Sickening," a friend said disapprovingly. "They were paid so much and there they were scrambling for the last Mars bar."
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