posters in this thread also believe that there are bad people in western financial institutions but that 1) the laws and regulations in place ensure that the system is at least usable by normal people to do useful work, as evidenced by the bajillions of dollars of money made by selling products and services that are not stolen from their bank accounts; and 2) that western financial institutions will not in general repeat the same mistakes as they committed in the past that resulted in things like the Great Depression, and in particular will not last long enough to collect billions of dollars based entirely on hype and become a critical cornerstone of the entire market, as certain centralized exchanges this past year had