Michael Lewis' juvenile book and this trashy boorish expression get promoted here? That's great. If you read the thing you'd probably have noticed Lewis really adulates Street culture like an adolescent homosexual unleashed into the halls of a jock college fraternity. Meanwhile Mr.Gross keeps focus on a puerile trope and destroys any chance of creating a trenchant observation. Naturally trading fatcats are obnoxious, so are highly successful TV personalities, overrated writers, sports figures, politicians..... Many people have difficulty dealing with enormous success. College professors may be the worst of the lot. This article really goes nowhere except to state the Grossly obvious: people that conform to and ply the system are often unduly recompensed. Great innovators and unconventional types frequently go through life cheated. 100 years later their work goes to some puke bidding at Sotheby's for a thousand timeswhat they earned in a lifetime.

Socialism makes this kind of thing much worse.

I'm sure you've got a boner from all the schadenfreude you are getting from the market collapse. Finally you can stick it to the guys who made the optimal market decision to get an MBA rather than toil in obscurity with your doctorate in archaeology.

Maybe if you had the same competitive spirit of the BSDs, you would be a successful entrepreneur. Unfortunately, you only get to demonstrate your expensive education on Internet message boards.

Shouldn't your target be Daniel Gross? As far as profane acronyms are concerned BS is as far as I go. What post did you read? Was I supposed to be impressed by "Liar's Poker"? I read a lot of books and thought it was unusually lame. What I criticized was what Gross wrote so what you are talking about is weird.