matt taibbi, american badass

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Strangelet

i'm learning along with you. I have no clue about global finance. I just know what feels right when I hear someone speak, which unfortunately lean to towards the conspiratorial side.

But I rationalize that by the argument that things are so fucked right now, there must be a conspiracy. If its not a conspiracy of insidious intent, there's a conspiracy of idiocy or a conspiracy of short sighted incompetence.

I'm one of the ignorant masses when it comes to all this crap, but I personally feel like rather than a conspiracy, we just have companies who were left unchecked long enough that they simply got too big and powerful. Kind of works well with my deep-seeded, long-time desire to see society knocked back a few centuries to the times when people's jobs were more about survival than they were about feeding a giant, confusing, financial machine.