[Orbiting_Rosie's_Head]

Belief in efficient markets is not "selling-out," even though it comes with the understanding that the market will choose winners and losers. Finally, belief that the government can do better at choosing winners than the market can is downright dangerous, and the fundamental basis of many failed economic experiments.

We don't have a free market. It is broken. What we do have doesn't work, or isn't working now. The market isn't choosing winners and losers. Morons in suits are. Why do you have so much faith in their ability to choose? Because they are rich? I've met plenty of stupid rich people. They are not all Hank Rearden, industrial Uberman. Many of them are dumber than the morons in government, if that's even possible.

[Poohbah]

Having read your posts...

I can tell you that if this attitude of yours is the real you and not a persona you adopt on the 'Net, (a) it's easy to see why you're getting terminated, and (b) you're going to have one hell of a time getting another job.

[riri]

Many of them are dumber than the morons in government, if that's even possible

So, so true. These guys fly by the seat of their pants half the time. These same guys driving around in the Lexus, snapping their fingers at waiters are reduced to nervous wrecks before they have to make the conference call to tell investors they just can't make the projected numbers. Stuttering, stumpling. Most of them would sell their mother to not have to make those announcements.

[1rudeboy]

The market isn't choosing winners and losers. Morons in suits are. Why do you have so much faith in their ability to choose?

Which leads to the question: did your job-loss come as a surprise, and if so, why?