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by mistrial9 1362 days ago
According to urban legends, in the events leading to the 2007-8 western financial crisis, when loans from lenders like Washington Mutual were being handed out by the dozens to clearly unqualified borrowers, there was a short acronym that was repeated on notes and word of mouth between dazed and skeptical financial employees IWBT-YWBT

I won't be there - You won't be there

literally meaning, the due date for these loans and the trouble they are making, will occur after you and I, fellow white collar worker, will be long gone.

In the years following those famous financial events, a large scale opioid medication abuse pattern emerged across the USA. What could be clearer in hindsight?

some people refused to participate, and some people profited, and far, far more people were financially damaged in a way that lingers today in the USA and elsewhere.