Floor manager Sam Rogers (Kevin Spacey) and CEO John Tuld (Jeremy Irons): “When did you start feeling so sorry for yourself? It’s unbearable. What so you think? We might have put a few people out of business today? That’s all for naught? But you’ve been doing that every day for almost 40 years Sam and if this is all for naught then so is everything out there. It’s just money. It’s made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don’t have to kill each other just to get something to eat. It’s not wrong. And it’s certainly no different today than it’s ever been. 1637. 1797. 1819. 37. 57. 84. 1901. 07. 29. 1937. 1974. 1987. jesus didn’t that F- me up good. 92. 97. 2000. and whatever you want to call this [global economic crisis of 2008/9]. It’s all just the same thing over and over. We can’t help ourselves. And you and I can’t control it or stop it or even slow it. We, even, ever so slightly alter it. We just react and we make a lot of money if we get it right and we get left by the side of the road if we get it wrong. And there have always been and there always will be the same percentage of winners and losers. Happy F-s and sad sacks. Fat cats and starving dogs in this world. Yeah, there may be more of us today than there’s ever been, but the percentages, they stay exactly the same.”
Film: Margin Call
Released: 2011
Director: J.C. Chandor
Distributors: Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions, Benaroya Pictures
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Humble note:
- Some would argue that income inequality is a destabilizing trend in democratic societies.
- Some would argue that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
- The Great Depression of 1929-39 led up to World War II.