[mjamesaustin]

Scams are our entire economy now. Do whatever you can to own a market, then squeeze your customers miserably once you have their loyalty. Cash out, kick the smoking remains of the company to the curb, use your payout to buy into another company, and repeat.

[lotsofpulp]

Kind of like paying more and more to Social Security and Medicare and getting less and less.

And the backstop on asset prices at the expense of the currency's purchasing power.