"lol, well played."
Indeed.
The caricature of the stock promoters' constant refrain that the only reason that anyone ever posts on these boards is financial self-interest, and that the concepts of philanthropy and intellectual curiousity are both non-existent was particularly piquant, I thought.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
H. L. Mencken