Yeah, one well designed financial video game could have saved the world. They place their bets, erect their assets, derivatives or whatever and then everybody grab their joystick. Effectively it is an adolescent, predominantly male risk-taking aggressive game of brinksmanship, manipulation/intuition and chance. I have no objection to stars in this game earning megabucks, just as football or poker tournament stars do, as long as their own industry can support these costs from willing paying fans rather than by gaming it out of systems established by society for other purposes.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
