some of the comments here have indeed been so heartless and unnecessarily cruel. Yes Carol made mistakes, maybe the problem doesn’t lie with Carol who is only human after all and doesn’t pretend to have precognitive powers, but with a system that feeds off speculation, short-term gains, and is run by self-serving idiots who really don’t even know what they are doing.
Some people here worship capitalism like it’s their religion, in fact it is their religion, and attacking it is like attacking their faith, they respond with bitterness, a ‘let Carol eat cake’ sneering and irrational anger that only proves the point – that capitalism (like its unquestioning faithful) is heartless and ruthless. As we proceed from one capitalist disaster after another, like a falling down drunk, they want to blame its victims (like Carol) and not the perps.
and like Carol I am no liberal, never mind a communist nor socialist. I cannot stand the Left, and yet have nothing but antipathy to a capitalist system so inherently ruthless and built on the insanity of profit for its own sake – inevitably we end up where we do.
