Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
Well, Bernie Madoff wasn't complacent, the people who cause the financial crisis weren't complacent, one could say the lack of complacency is a problem in general as well, a lot of thieves, mafia bosses etc. aren't complacent, I'd rather have a population of Andress (plural of Andres) than a population of people who are never complacent and would do anything to further their own goals, whatever it may cost.
I'd even go as far as saying people who illegally download movies and music aren't complacent, many of them only get things illegally because that means they can get more music, more movies AND more of whatever they spend their limited money on instead, could be alcohol, cigarettes, cars, guns or political campaign donations.

The key of course is to find a middle ground where noone gets hurt, but good luck trying to get there, to some extent people have probably tried that since whenever we stopped being complacent monkeys/god created us.

the way i see it, there are both kinds of people and as long as neither side becomes too strong we can have some sort of balance, yin and yang, bananas and apples, marx and gates, something like that.
Yes, and the problem is that the Madoffs of the world are very active and the rest of us are becoming complacent, thus the Madoffs have an easier way to go.

I'm rather surprised; basically, I keep getting "well, it could be worse so don't worry about it."

Erm, don't we want it to be... better?

But, uh, this is kind of a vague thread about idealistic generalizations anyway. Not expecting to get much accross.
I confess, it is a vague, idealistic thread.

The point, though, would be that we are more interested in what Hannah Montanna is wearing to the next galla then who takes office in Iran or whether or not we get nuked by N. Korea. This is bad.