Colby Cosh: Any system that produced Casey Serin must be rotten to the core

Colby Cosh has written a great piece for the National Post. Excerpts:

Today, Casey is forgotten, but one day, his curious story will be re-examined with intensity and amazement; for he was the canary whose plummet from the perch disclosed that the world’s major financial organs were sucking methane.
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Serin was so unaware he’d done anything wrong -- ethically or legally -- that he openly blogged about all this behaviour, defiantly arguing with Web visitors about his refusal to find a job, his carelessness about reporting to creditors, his reliance on patient friends and relatives and the inane purchases he would make whenever some scrap of cash fell in to his hands. He became legendary in the blogosphere and on the talk-show circuit for alternating half-baked musings about whether he’d really done anything wrong, dipstick maxims like, “The fastest way to becoming a millionaire is to borrow a million,” scorn for formal education and hard work and praise for virtually every form of snake oil known to mankind, ranging from enemas to wheat grass to “9/11 truth.”

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