Virgin Reviews: Greed and Crisis

Alexys 2022-04-23 07:01:55

After reading the comments, I think there are different opinions. Maybe everyone pays different attention to the film. It is not to criticize the people on Wall Street. Although the plots of those opponents are quite good, I think Will's words on the way to let Eric return to the company that failed. This is what the movie I can understand wants to illustrate: From the tulip bubble to the financial crisis in 2008, the root cause is human greed, and no one can escape this responsibility. From the beginning of credit, Economic Growth can get rid of the limitation of current productivity. Consumption can be invested in advance and there can be leverage. It was originally a good thing, because a benign credit monetary system can improve the efficiency of capital use and improve people's current quality of life, but human nature has too many weaknesses, self-sabotage, anxiety, greedy. The existence of gravity is generally insurmountable, so as long as there is an incentive such as financial interests or fear of people, the original dark side will be exposed and start to act irrationally, which will lead to the deterioration of the entire benign system into a crisis, and the public and media will not be held accountable in the face of the crisis. I immediately started to clear my responsibilities or I never thought that I was also a part of using this system to satisfy my greed and desire. I remember that there was a line in Hansawa Naoki that criticized the bank, "borrow an umbrella in a sunny day and collect an umbrella in a rainy day." In fact, everyone is like this When the world is hot and the situation is good, when the situation is good, you buy a house and consume like a scapegoat. When the economy is depressed, you start to look for a scapegoat. Anyway, you look like you are right. The buyer and seller in the financial system are naturally very responsible, but using the market inefficiency caused by the weakness of human nature to make profits is itself a profit. The way is certified by the SEC and it's legal. You're right to say it's morally corrupt, but I think people themselves are responsible for their actions. If you're a greedy person, either become one of the players, or don't be too fierce. Embarrass yourself, if you own If you don't want to be restrained by this kind of gravity, try to find a way to discipline. All in all, everything is a cycle. It's a trajectory. It's unavoidable and understandable. It's unpredictable and unquantifiable.

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  • 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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