TRP-related (by me at least)..from a review

[Michael Bailey]

 rich wrote:
> meant to say "not necessarily a bad thing'. sorry
>

you had it right the first time!

 rich wrote:
>>
>> I don't think the idea  that public companies can find ways to raise
>> capital such as issuing shares is necessarily a bad thing.

see?


>Proper oversight
>> and regulation is what is needed
>

ah, but who will bell the cat?


>> as much as anarchism is very attractive, all it really amounts to a
>> diversion for children with nothing to lose no matter how Pynchon exalts
>> them.

people say that about religion too, but some very smart people
have led very productive lives under both those aegises (aegae?  Aegeans?)

it's whatcha make of it that counts...

was it Pushkin who said of religion and politics, that they don't
comprise a gnat's anus between them?  and of philosophy,
that it was even less substantial?



>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>     The Big Short by Michael Lewis is "an indictment of shareholder
>>> driven capitalism". As soon as partnership was replaced by investor money,
>>> it became a casino.
>>>
>>> I would argue that one of the meanings of the casino (and Vegas in IV?)
>>> in AtD is captured in the above....Pynchon satirizes society for losing its
>>> human scale most.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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