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But isn't the whole point of gambling and trading not the "buzz"?

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Sun Jan 2nd, 2011 at 04:14:59 PM EST
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The bonuses are also part of the buzz.

If alcohol is a learned behaviour disorder, so is capitalism.

We're being run by monkeys pressing levers for a repeat hit.

And I mean that quite literally.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Jan 2nd, 2011 at 04:40:13 PM EST
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And the monkeys are looked after by incompetent politicians who think their jobs depend on the number of levers pushed, who are in turn voted for by a majority of people with other levers called remote controls that allow them to almost instantly enter a hypnagogic state in which reality and fiction are impossibly entangled.

Mind you, we are all struggling to unravel.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Jan 2nd, 2011 at 05:01:17 PM EST
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