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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thasmodious" data-source="post: 4679358" data-attributes="member: 63272">Not to get too political here, but actually, they did.  This "blame the consumer" nonsense is white noise from those that got us into this mess through staggering greed and unrestrained gambling.  Read up on the credit default swaps market.  Blaming undereducated Dave the factory worker because he believed his banker when the banker said "we've got the perfect program created just for families like yours!" is ludicrous.  These programs were designed by the best and brightest highly educated financial minds in the world for the purpose of handing out high risk credit then trading and speculating with a balloon of fake wealth backed by air.  At one point, the value of the default swaps exceeded the combined GDP of every nation on the planet.  The more risky credit the banks handed out, the more "bets" they could place on default speculation, which they would then trade amongst themselves creating an artificial, completely unregulated market of fake wealth.  Uncontrolled, rampant corporate greed, and the world governments that allowed this to go on (principally, but not solely, the US government) are where exactly all the blame lies.Sorry to get "political" in the thread, but this "blame the blue collar worker for wanting to own his own home and trusting the slick banker in his 3-piece suit and for not being an expert on international finance" thing really pisses me off.  It's a smoke and mirrors act engineered by the people responsible for this mess to try and redirect blame, and disseminated by people who still believe an unregulated market is self-correcting.  That's been soundly, terribly, and abruptly disproved.  Unless by self-correcting you mean - spirals out of control until it bursts, plunging the world into an economic crisis that was easily avoidable with a bit of regulation.Back to your regularly scheduled thread... um, WotC good.  Fire bad.  As long as D&D is made by gamers, we are in good hands, as far as I am concerned.</blockquote>

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