1/ The one thing gratifying about the publicity around Rep. Collins insider trading & the massive fraud/corruption of Trump and his Cabinet members, is that the insane levels of unprosecuted white collar crime we found while writing LEVERAGE are entering public consciousness
2/ It was overwhelming, it was crushing, it was one of the reasons I was kind of okay with the show ending. I grew up knowing the system is rigged. I had no idea how systematically rigged it was.
3/ If a "black market economy" is an economy that exists around skirting the law, then the entire economy is a black market economy. That research was an unending parade of sociopaths made successful in a system optimized for them.
4/ The only thing more enraging for me, personally, are the useful idiot center-right pundits who lecture us on how this is the best system from some MORAL standpoint. I assume it's a grift, because if they believe it, they're naive idiots.
5/ Even the creation of the phrase "white collar", rather than the more useful comparison of "systematized rather than spontaneous theft" is a pillar of this worldview.
6/ tl:dr It's good a show ends when the phrase "cleansing white fire" is the first thought of your day, every day, when you wake up.
