[foltik]

Always comes back to the good ol “fuck you, I got mine.”

[jfoster]

When the problem is particularly exacerbated, it's not even "I got mine", but rather, "I already went into eye-watering levels of debt and I'm still paying off the roof over my head."

[foltik]

So you made a half-million dollar leveraged bet and now want the government to rig the market so it pays off, at everyone else’s expense.

Being more desperate doesn’t make it any less selfish. It’s a universal desire for everyone who’s not selfish.