<div dir="ltr">Controlling market mechanisms surrounding tulips is arguably frivolous. Using<br>this as an example to make an ideological point is likewise.<br><br>A government exerting control on crucial fundaments of financial markets, plus <br>
implementing law that do the same, <i>and actually enforcing them</i>, with the <br>purpose of protecting voters from market predation, exploitation, fluctations, <br>callous exclusion or arbitrage is doing what a government is doing - creating the<br>
requirements for a civil society. <br><br>Just as we lock up pedophyles and rapists, we should lock up people that, by<br>virtue of financial malpractice, callous disinterest, betrayal of position or gross<br>incompetence, cause the fundamental conditions for safe, civil life of people to<br>
be impaired, or destroyed. We lock up people for throwing large cement bricks <br>on train rails. We should do the same if greedy sociopaths cause comparable <br>damage to our financial systems and we should prevent these calamities from <br>
happening. <br><br>Thank the old ones I live in a sane Europe. <br><br><br></div>