Saturday, February 28, 2015

A Corrupt Society Can't Recognize Corruption

There 's only accountability at the bottom of this Ponzi Scheme. Zero accountability at the top. If an inner city youth steals a chocolate bar, he pays a heavy price. If Goldman Sachs invents a "synthetic" debt obligation, packs it full of the worst subprime mortgages in the country and sells it with a AAA rating only to watch it implode mere months later, they get bailed out for $13 billion at 100 cents on the dollar.

And six years later, they get another $2 billion:



Success in any endeavour, requires three key factors: luck, capability, and hard work. Absent any one of those factors and failure is inevitable. This society right now is running solely on luck. Capability and hard work have left the building. 

And luck is running out. 

The Vampire Squid Visualized:


Let's see how the gamblers like their bailouts when this shit show collapses.