[jfengel]

Moving money around and pretending that there is more of it.

[alchemist1e9]

You mean leverage/borrowing? Pretty time tested mechanism of risk taking in free markets.

[idiotsecant]

Moving money from one pile to another so that you can skim a little off the top is imaginary work and is slowly destroying the west

[mapt]

It's always gone on, and probably always will on some level.

It's only when it becomes the primary concern that capitalism eats itself.

[k33n]

That’s not what’s slowly destroying the west but I understand that I must keep my remarks on this Marxist-friendly website very tame.