Keeping Up With The Kardashians...wait what?!

Rating: Null/10 (8 January 2016)

"The Big Short" is what happens when you keep up with the Kardashians instead of the world around you.
"The Big Short" is what happens when you allow greed and stupidity to co-exist and then you go on to praise the fruits of their loom (no not the t-shirt and underwear company)...
"The Big Short" happened because we allowed it to happen. Lost amidst all of the finger pointing, posturing and outrage...we conveniently forgot our own complicity as a people in this whole mess. Our own greed, selfishness and desire for the easy life, the easy way out, paved the path and greased the wheels for all these Wall Street types to do what they did. We, without wanting to know about it, gave them our blessing. And they went ahead and they did what they know to do...make money at all costs.
Sure, financiers (of all types) and regulators, governments etc., etc, etc., deserve a large share of the blame. No doubt.
But the proof is in the pudding, the devil is in the details. With the exception of a few suckers, more like sacrificial lambs, not one of the people responsible for this has ever been punished or went to jail. Worse, we went on to bail them out of the mess they created and on top of that were left to foot the bill and pay the real life cost of the outcome of that mess.
And the cherry on top of this s*it cake? Now, almost 8 years later, after what was dubbed the Great Recession, pretty much the same individuals are back doing what they did then, but on an even larger scale and we are in an even worse position to head off or prevent another crisis like the one in 2008. Or probably much worse and much bigger.
"The Big Short" happens because we shirk our own responsibility.
Oh yeah and the movie is really good too...you should check it out...