No Sympathy for Wall Street. None.
"Ugh. Someone get Wall Street an ice pack," says Katherine Mangu-Ward.
Fuck that.
They laid down with dogs long ago.
I'm not shedding one tear for their flea problems today.
All they had to do tell the state piss off, this is between us and our clients. Instead, they clamored for legalized privilege and bailouts. At least the rotten bastards of the past knew what they were doing and how hard they were doing it to everyone else. Today's morons can't think beyond a few fiscal quarters in a single chronological direction, groping at pragmatism at any chance they get.
You aren't free marketers. You aren't capitalists. You don't embody laissez-faire. Stop slandering those who can differentiate a principle from a talking point.
You're fakers and for the remaining handful of honest folk left, I say give up and get out while you can. Stop associating with these criminals. There's no reasoning with them. I know you can't just start your own competing companies without the state's permission, but there's no need to hang around people who actively ruin your reputation.