Yes, Tyranny of the Minority is fun when you're the minority.

You mean they'd have to pander to a majority of the people, who are worth less than you are worth because you dislike their politics.

By that logic, we shouldn't use that kind of rhetoric for robbers, rapists, and murderers? Also, I'm not railing against "wrong class". That's how fucking owned all the responders on this thread of mine are. They think antipathy for white collar criminals equates to communism or le Terror. I'm not Robespierre to want the people who were purposefully bundling toxic assets thrown in jail, the people who are manipulating LIBOR to face prosecution, etc. These people are real fuck heads, and by these people I don't mean every banker, or every capitalist, or every wealthy person. If you can't appreciate this distinction, you're a tool.

Wealth and health are heavily correlated. People care about crimes like their house being robbed of a few thousand dollars because they're acute phenomena that are easily appreciated. Even when the crime had zero chance of hurting us physically, we all feel outraged and angry upon discovering the loss of our stuff.

We don't notice the theft due to the LIBOR manipulations, for instance. It's hard to connect the dots when we can't afford health care and so we don't go get a checkup as often as we should and we ultimately discover an advanced cancer with a terrible prognosis which would have been better caught early. Stealing a few thousand dollars from some one pennies at a time still ultimately makes it more likely we die early or live lives with more suffering. We're less likely to send our children to college, less likely for them to improve the world for others, and it goes on and on. Our total wealth lives in the potential of human beings to collectively change the human condition. Stealing thousands of dollars from each individual is a big deal. It's just that when it's done to us through mechanisms like quantitative easing, we don't even notice.

Yeah, that stuff happens. We don't notice when we make 50% of what we should because of the totality of white collar crime or other aristocratic bullshit. Nobody is angry that several thousand dollars have been stolen from them via their mortgage because of the LIBOR manipulations. Its invisible to us.

Trillions have been stolen by rich men. People don't care because they don't understand or they've learned to accept the system as it comes to them. It's hard to get outraged about these things because it's unclear what to do. Our legislature seems captured by these fucks, on both sides of the aisle.

It's worse than that, because much of the crime that we experience up front by the poor would be lessened if the economic situation improved for the poor. A rich man's crimes breed poor men's crimes.

Fortune isn't a museum or a history class, it's a database of inspiring quotes. It's not an appropriate place for nazis.

People have been saying politics have been destroying the open source movement since about five minutes after the first source was forked.

Wouldn't it be amusing if "Anonymous Coward" was changed to "Russian Agitator"?

Isn't this essentially the hunter gatherer lifestyle? For most of humanity's existence, we basically lived this way until we were forced to give it up to adopt agriculture.

Until we won't even be able to prove it's fake.

Aren't you making their point for them? Is there some sort of long term value to forcing retail experiences to have built in retry at the consumer level? It seems quite the opposite. Does it make a retailer more competitive if we don't have to have a second attempt when purchasing the stock?

Should we call it AOL-internet, too?

Who cares about the fourth amendment, anyway. We should definitely give the federal government all of our personal information. Maybe install cameras for their viewing benefit in our living rooms? We definitely shouldn't allow anyone to be anonymous on the internet. Or, frankly, any public forum. We need video cameras on all the walmart corkboards right? Just in case it would be useful in solving a crime. Certainly, we can trust the federales to safeguard the bank account information of people who've offended the federales, at least until the democrats are in charge again and then it's probably time to complain about it, yes? Also, wtf is the point of a warrant anymore. It gets in the way of solving crimes, and punishing our political opponents, which soon will be considered the same thing anyway.

Money laundering is when you take illegally gotten gains and make them look like they were legally acquired. Tumblers simply anonymize the source which is not sufficient to consider the funds laundered. It's not like the IRS is going to stop charging you with tax evasion because they can't figure out how you acquired the money. Adding anonymity to the source of funds is not necessarily a crime either. Consider how money is moved through international banks which obscures where the funds originated.

Yes, you too can know the joys of a watered down vote by virtue of living in a densely populated area! Time to share your two senators with many more people! And be gerrymandered so your reps have no interest in what you say.

AWS

If you're invested in an all-market fund, the rate of change in the market is meaningful to you. This is the point you're calling "meaningless". Do you not understand it?

How do you acquire an answer to the question "what is the change in my all-market shares since yesterday?" There is no way to answer this question without the information you call meaningless.