@maxkennerly I get it, but bail outs are good and not costly when properly managed. You cannot regulate away all risk. Every so often you should bailout.

@rbreich Yes, That is the way it works. But not the only, among many ways. Corporations also transfer the external by-products of their decision-making to us every single day. These externalities have never, ever been chargeable to the companies which produce them, but only to those who consume the products which create them. This carries a far greater, (and fully tolerated) embedded cost to consumers than intermittent inflationary cycles. Yes. That is the way it works.

@Strandjunker Judge “ them” by all means! But first we must defeat them, or history will judge us!

@rbreich Or perhaps an alternate interpretation. 1. Work and Capital keeps us going. Without both, there is nothing. 2. Profits always have and always will trickle, but perhaps not the way one would like. 3. The organisation of our society arises from infinitely variable choices, exacerbated by the small matter of freedom. 4. Nothing is a right. Sacrifice is a given.