Uh, no, actually, I did not change the subject at all. You may have misread Mr. Lahde's statement in the first place.
Mr. Lahde was speaking of "these people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government."
Those are the idiots in question, because they're the "people stupid enough to take the other side of [Ladhe's] trades."
Maybe we were reading an ambugous quote, one that can be taken both ways. Here is the quote:
“All of this behaviour supporting the aristocracy only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America.”
He ‘found’ people, to take the other side of ‘his’ trades.
It does not say whether these people were his account holders, or his students, or his acquaintances, or dinner guests, etc.
He ‘found’ them.
Can you explain this any other way?