alt Hacker News“So, what you're telling me is that the music is about to stop and we're going to be left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of capitalism.”
A brilliant line from the movie Margin Call (a fictional portrait of the actual events of the 2008 crisis) that appears likely to get reused in upcoming AI bubble burst movies.
"In the history of… <pregnant pause> capitalism"
That whole scene is absolutely full of perfect observations; I refer to it often in different contexts.
It's the first film JC Chandor ever directed, from what I understand to be his first feature-length film script.
Another great quote: "I run risk management... it just doesn't seem like a natural place to start cutting."