We've been indoctrinated into thinking of capitalism as brave and bold entrepreneurs taking great risks and working so cleverly and so hard to introduce innovation and creativity into a market, meeting human needs and betting it all against stiff competition to make our lives richer and easier.

Maybe its that way for some, but the complex structures and processes of modern capitalism often have no relation to real human needs, they feed on themselves in a grotesque parody of the real world and become a game played solely for the benefit of the players.

The very idea that you can deliberately bet on a market to fail is obscene, but that the apologists for these financial shenanigans actually insist that it is somehow healthy for the system to undergo these cataclysms is simply astonishing to me. To take advantage of these financial collapses for personal gain seems at the very least to be profoundly unethical. To actually work tirelessly and cleverly to bring these conditions about, to precipitate them deliberately, is much worse. It is a moral crime of the highest order. Those who regard these activities with envy and admiration must have nothing but contempt for their fellow men. We are all just marks to them. We are so stupid we deserve to be robbed. Real human lives are ruined by the millions so these blow-dried wimps can congratulate themselves on how clever they are, and how stupid their victims are.

These people are to capitalism as Dr Joseph Mengele was to medicine.