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When "The Wolf of Wall Street" was released in 2013, Toby Young complained about how it cast Jordan Belfort as a villain, when he should have been lauded as a hero.

In the film, there's a scene where he's exposed as a fraud and a pump/dumper by a newspaper - the next day, he's deluged with job applications from other sharks wanting a slice of the pie. By the end of the film, as he's given a slap on the wrist while the people who investigated and prosecuted him ride home on public transport, the message is clear - he's morally repugnant, but will never suffer materially. Life just ain't fair.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2026 11:58 am Rest assured that Elmo will have disposed of his own.

Main losers will be:
* PLU with pension managed by herd grazers posing as "experts".
* Fanboys strolling into their umpteenth rug-pull after NFTs, Melaniacoin, HawkTuahCoin ...

I saw a clip of a podcast called 'The Bulwark' on which the host interviewed some minor Silicon Valley 'angel investor' who said roughly the following:

1) Nobody had thought of cutting government expenditure until Musk ran DOGE
2) Space X valuation is right because in future we'll all have personal satellites or some such shit
3) Space X valuation was perhaps slightly overinflated but 1.2 trillion or so sounded good

I gave up not long after this.

It's a self-sustaining fantasy land. The costs are all pushed outwards, and we're supposed to revere these people.