It's not often that I overhear a statement from an Average Joe outside the Metro, only to immediately realize its immense wisdom.
After all, it's easy to place the blame for this economic crisis on others. There are a multitude of convenient targets out there--some (much) guiltier than others. Yet we cannot deny that we did, in fact, "eat the sh** up".
It's perfectly fine to chastise the salesmen of sh**--so long as we remember that they made their livings, and still make their livings, off the consumers of sh**.
I have a recommendation for us all, as we try to pinpoint who is responsible for starting this sh** in the first place. We should distinguish between four key, but sometimes fluid, categories of people: The Greedy, the Incompetent, the Criminally Liable, and The Indifferent.
And to elevate the discourse a bit, I ought to define what I mean by sh**.
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