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The desire to let it all burn comes from those who played by the rules.

The government's intervention creates moral hazard: those that played with fire got burnt, and those who didn't didn't, but those who didn't get burnt were positioning themselves to take advantage of the opportunities that the crispy bodies would have generated.

But the government swooped in and saved the crispies, without penalty to them, at the cost of those who had proper risk-adjusted positioning.

We see this time and time again. The government is changing the rules after the game is over to change the losers to winners. It's nonsense.




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