(August 6, 2013 at 6:54 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: But really, I am not in favour of hanging the bankers, but it wasn't me who gave them the power to fuck up the countries economy. They need the banks, so they save them.
Saving the banks is not a solution, but letting them fall is no solution either.
The solution lies in changing the system.
I didn't give the bankers the ability to fuck up the economy, either. The problem is that these people see no negative consequences for their deceitful and callous practices. Perhaps vigilante justice is just what the doctor ordered.
As for true solutions, one of them, bailouts, perpetuates the flawed system, while letting them fail would force us to fix it. The short-term would be painful, but in the long-term we would be better off. It appears that serious change will only be brought about through allowing the system to collapse on itself.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
