one chance professions

An interesting take on why banker's pay is so lavish --- the argument essentially boils down to when you have one chance to get things like mergers and ipos right, the amount of money you could save by paying bankers less is negligible compared to what you could lose.

I actually found the part about why people who do movie trailer voice overs are paid so much the most fascinating part of the article. I had no idea that creating movie trailers was so lucrative.