[logfromblammo]

Business Analyst: "Hey guys, remember how we invested all that effort into replacing expensive workers with cheap computer programs to cut business costs? It turns out that we're all really expensive workers."

Bond Trader: "So who would be the last expensive workers to be replaced?"

Consumer Banking Executive: "Well, the ones writing the programs, obviously. If they replaced themselves, their programs would finish replacing everyone else practically overnight!"

Options Trader: "I move that we all become software professionals!"

Chorus: "SECOND!!"

B.A.: "Those in favor?"

Chorus: "AYE!!"

Quant (whispering into phone): "I want to short the entire global economy, RIGHT NOW."