"Addicted to money" RTE1 tonight

[Fran Tick]

Thankfully I have the TV on mute, Luther.

[luther]

Thankfully I have the TV on mute, Luther.

I think I'll flick over to something interesting.........

[Alec Horan]

wow - so people are greedy and stupid and think short term. everything falls apart and starts all over again until the next good time leads to the next collapse ad infinitum

Tulips !

[nicegirlsarenice]

I think that the name of it is really stupid. If we were "addicted to money", wouldn't we crave money and be miserly about it and put it away for a rainy day etc.? If we were addicted to it we wouldn't be spending it.

You don't say a heroin dealer is "addicted to heroin", maybe you say he's addicted to selling or dealing with heroin, not addicted TO it. I can't understand how people can say or have the title of something like that without a second of consideration over it.

[Fran Tick]

I think that the name of it is really stupid. If we were "addicted to money", wouldn't we crave money and be miserly about it and put it away for a rainy day etc.? If we were addicted to it we wouldn't be spending it.

You don't say a heroin dealer is "addicted to heroin", maybe you say he's addicted to selling or dealing with heroin, not addicted TO it. I can't understand how people can say or have the title of something like that without a second of consideration over it.

I think the title is an euphenism not a literal meaning. "Easy Credit" became so freely available that as one commentator on the show said "if you could fog up a mirror" you were given credit.

[carlos marvado]

wow - so people are greedy and stupid and think short term. everything falls apart and starts all over again until the next good time leads to the next collapse ad infinitum

Tulips !

Tulips indeed Brother Alec, the original speculative bubble...........and we still have'nt learned a f**king thing.

[luther]

And how does that make you feel???...............

You were asked it first here folks............

[Alec Horan]

And how does that make you feel???...............

You were asked it first here folks............

In the last sentence he blamed - the bankers then in turn the regulators and then the governments. He stopped at that point. He should not have , he chickened out, there was one group left.......

[Alec Horan]

Tulips indeed Brother Alec, the original speculative bubble...........and we still have'nt learned a f**king thing.

Got it in one Brother Carlos.

and as for the title of my post, reference to a famous book published in1841


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