I liked especially: > Here's the real problem with people like Jake DeSantis. Throughout this whole period, they never were able to connect the dots -- to grasp the fact that when they skimmed a million here or a million there off the great rivers of capital that flowed through their offices, that that money came from somewhere, from someone.
It was like these people got a privilege from the government to take a 5% tax of everybody else's wages and put it in their pocket for their "valuable" services as financial plumbers. Why did the government give them that privilege? One answer is here: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice
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ReplyDelete> Here's the real problem with people like Jake DeSantis. Throughout this whole period, they never were able to connect the dots -- to grasp the fact that when they skimmed a million here or a million there off the great rivers of capital that flowed through their offices, that that money came from somewhere, from someone.
It was like these people got a privilege from the government to take a 5% tax of everybody else's wages and put it in their pocket for their "valuable" services as financial plumbers. Why did the government give them that privilege? One answer is here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice