The real problem with financial markets

[AtW]

Are you proposing that the City go back to selling money, instead of risks?

What I am proposing is to knock all those high raise buildings down in that square mile and build Disney Land - all the former City employees will have to get a job for at least 10 years in order to work out their debts to society.

sasguru will be one of the klowns

[sasguru]

Bollox - you have not been working for 23 minutes, at least in the last 10 years on this forum

How galling it must be for you that you work so hard for so little.
But the world was never fair.

[AtW]

How galling it must be for you that you work so hard for so little.

Hard work - yes, so little? No.

[Moscow Mule]

What I am proposing is to knock all those high raise buildings down in that square mile and build Disney Land - all the former City employees will have to get a job for at least 10 years in order to work out their debts to society.

sasguru will be one of the klowns

I think that is unwise. Those buildings could easily be converted to hotel space, and the unfinished ones would provide the ideal framework for some kick-ass roller coasters. Otherwise your plan has some merit.

[Scary]

I think that is unwise. Those buildings could easily be converted to hotel space, and the unfinished ones would provide the ideal framework for some kick-ass roller coasters. Otherwise you plan has some merit.

They started just before the turn of the century, built a big wheel and a big top, but then the plan kind of fizzled out...

[AtW]

I think that is unwise. Those buildings could easily be converted to hotel space, and the unfinished ones would provide the ideal framework for some kick-ass roller coasters. Otherwise your plan has some merit.

The place is cursed - there would be regular crashes on that rollercoaster with people responsible getting massive bonuses anyway

[Doggy Styles]

New sources of power, the ability to manipulate material at an atomic or even subatomic level, the ability to manipulate gravity or any of the other forces working on us. Sounds outlandish I know, but if you’d said tried to explain semiconductors only 100 years ago, even the most educated people would have given you a vague look and perhaps told you to take another pill.

Indeed, as an apprentice engineer in a Defence electronics lab 30 years ago, and inspired by that Firefox story, I proposed using "thought" (actually a-waves and all that stuff) to control electronic apparatus - and was gently laughed at by my professory team.

But now it has come to pass. I could have invented something before threaded...

[threaded]

The economic slave never realizes he is kept in a cage going round and round basically nowhere with millions of others.