We are all made of greed

Vaughn 2022-04-21 09:01:58

From the perspective of different interests, the nature of things will be different. For example, Peter asked Sam to sell these garbage mbs to unwitting buyers and cause a financial crisis. Is the right thing to do? sam asked for whom?
From a personal point of view, everyone is also for their own interests. Sam can continue to do the work he doesn't want to do for money, and Eric can put down the dignity of a bridge engineer who used to benefit the people for the money. They all come out to mix and eat, there is no way.
It is difficult to change from extravagance to thrift. Sam is still short of money after working for so many years, and Will's 2.5 million US dollars is just gone.
The portrayal of characters in the play is mainly limited to the image of the workplace, such as sam, his emotional world, his relationship with his son, etc. We have no way of knowing. At most, we can only do it from his love for dogs and indifference to his son. A little speculation.
Judging from the theme of the whole film, there is no way to avoid the cyclical decline of the capitalist system, and the greed of human nature is what causes this cycle to repeat itself. We just can't control ourselves. As sung in the imagine dragon song, no matter what we breed, we are all made of greed. Will was right on the East River with what he said to seth, normal people want to buy a luxury car and live in a big house, but they cannot rely on themselves. It couldn't be done, so the investment bankers gave them credit and let them consume in advance to meet their needs. When the crisis comes, how can normal people pretend to be innocent and pass all the responsibilities to the investment bankers?
In the end, bull shit is boring, everyone is doing it for profit, like Seth telling Jared in the toilet that this is what I really like to do, and being jared coldly saying really? Dress it up, people here are all smart people, some things are okay to brag in the behavioral interview, and talking about such fake feelings with the big boss is unavoidable.

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Margin Call quotes

  • John Tuld: So you think we might have put a few people out of business today. That its all for naught. You've been doing that everyday for almost forty years Sam. And if this is all for naught then so is everything out there. Its just money; its made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat. It's not wrong. And it's certainly no different today than its ever been. 1637, 1797, 1819, 37, 57, 84, 1901, 07, 29, 1937, 1974, 1987-Jesus, didn't that fuck up me up good-92, 97, 2000 and whatever we want to call this. It's all just the same thing over and over; we can't help ourselves. And you and I can't control it, or stop it, or even slow it. Or even ever-so-slightly alter it. We just react. And we make a lot money if we get it right. And we get left by the side of the side of the road if we get it wrong. And there have always been and there always will be the same percentage of winners and losers. Happy foxes and sad sacks. Fat cats and starving dogs in this world. Yeah, there may be more of us today than there's ever been. But the percentages-they stay exactly the same.

  • Will Emerson: Jesus, Seth. Listen, if you really wanna do this with your life you have to believe you're necessary and you are. People wanna live like this in their cars and big fuckin' houses they can't even pay for, then you're necessary. The only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is cause we got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and then the whole world gets really fuckin' fair really fuckin' quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they don't. They want what we have to give them but they also wanna, you know, play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. Well, thats more hypocrisy than I'm willing to swallow, so fuck em. Fuck normal people. You know, the funny thing is, tomorrow if all of this goes tits up they're gonna crucify us for being too reckless but if we're wrong, and everything gets back on track? Well then, the same people are gonna laugh till they piss their pants cause we're gonna all look like the biggest pussies God ever let through the door.

    Seth Bregman: Do you think we're gonna be wrong?

    Will Emerson: [long pause] No, they're all fucked.

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