In America, the middle class, their income has not grown to the same proportion as that very rich investor class, and I think I take issue with the idea that they [investors/venture capitalists] are facing “risk.” For example, the guy at Lehman. The company went bankrupt, and he walked away with — and I am obviously not an economist — but I think the term is “a shitload of money.” So what “risk” are these bankers taking?

It seems to me that the real risk is a guy who works in a coal mine his whole life, suffers from a debilitating health disease, puts his hard-earned money into a pension fund that some guy on Wall Street decides to gamble with on securitization and loses it. He [the coal miner] goes bust, and that guy [the guy on Wall Street] walks away with tens of millions of dollars. How is that appropriate?