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Monday 26 September 2011

BBC Interviews Slimy Sockmarket Trader.

Even members of the team interviewing stockmarket trader Alessio Rastani were left open-mouthed by the trail of slime he left behind him. "Economic collapse," he assured the BBC, "is simply an opportunity to make money. All you have to do is invest wisely - in government bonds for instance," adding, to make it seem more acceptable, "even ordinary people can do it." "Governments think that they rule the world," he said, "but Goldman Sachs does." No argument there, but the relish with which he contemplates the "opportunities" the world economic system gives him and people like him demonstrates why, like nothing else, the system needs changing. He is the face of modern capitalism - selfish, greedy, amoral and smug - and a prime example of the kind of scum that has floated to the surface in the last 30 years. To be fair to him he's merely the product of his times - what in Britain we'd call one of "Thatcher's Children" - but choosing between right and wrong, good and evil, has always been a matter of character and he lacks the vital ingredient - any kind of conscience. Sup with this particular devil and you will certainly need a very long spoon indeed.

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