There is a sense that if you make money you are going to give. Making money, however, is different from stealing money. If you steal the money, you are not expected to give it to a charity my friends. If you steal the money we will take the money back from you, by way of the government, and put you in jail. The American taxpayer in fact has given trillions of dollars, billions directly to Goldman Sachs so that Goldman can use the taxpayer subsidy to play a parlor game and pay themselves record bonuses.
"Shenanigans" seems to suggest hijinx, such as whoopee cushions and hand-buzzers. What we are talking about here is not horseplay ... this is deadly serious.
Let's call these activities what they are ... fraud, predation, corruption, malfeasance, crony capitalism, financial terrorism, generational theft .... whatever ...
but not "shenanigans".
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