[phillipcarter]

You betcha I'm envious of being able to sucker a bank out of a billion bucks. I'd love to pull off a con like that and then spend the rest of my life doing OSS software and traveling the world to do amazing things.

But I think it just goes to show how little merit has to do in this kind of economic system.

[fuzzfactor]

Sometimes you sucker the bank, sometimes the bank suckers you, depends on which scale beyond your own resources you can talk them into letting you operate, and where you are on a capitalistic continuum ranging from investors to consumers.

Where does it say merit or even sensibility is supposed to be a factor?