Yippe-Ki-Ya said:
Those who dabble in paper - and therefore help to uphold this criminal system - will be duly punished in good time...
and they'll be getting what they deserve too.
I think YKY refers more to the outcome based on reality, rather than any sense of morality.
To deserve your fate in this regard implies your ends are brought about by your choice of means.
If you dabble in the paper market and suffer a catastrophic loss when it unwinds, then there's no one else to blame but yourself.
The question of morality in your investment choices (after many property based discussions on SS) is really a moot issue here.
But I will repeat one of my favourite memes for those who assume there's such a thing as natural justice :
'No one ever said life was fair'
I assure you that at the end of the day those people we deem as 'evil', but hold the financial might of the world in their hands are very unlikely to be brought to any form of
justice at all.
'They will get what they deserve' is simply what we tell ourselves to feel better about a situation which we deem is unjust from our own ideal of morality and yet, have no control over the outcome.
If it was the ultimate truth that what we perceive as evil in the world would get
what they deserve in the end, then quite frankly, the world wouldn't be in the position it is now in the first place.
The ideal of karma has no further credence in reality than a lullaby that sends a child to sleep. Totally psychological.
Only those that reject the concept of objective reality and don't learn from the lessons of realism based outcomes will get 'what they deserve'
Those that choose blind faith over reality and that's just how the system is built and how it ultimately operates.
For sure, trading paper is how the world works right now. But if 2008 shows you anything, it's that a situation can change quickly and without warning. You have to assume that paper trades could leave you high and dry at any time.
Caveat emptor applies here.