Really? You know this as fact?
And while we're here, please define ''hard earned''.

Buy Litecoin.

You laid your cards on the table in your post and that honesty is to your credit in my view.

My point was more general than aimed specifically at you as what you do with your hard earned cash is, if legal, none of my business.

I agree with you that many people with cash just offload investment decisions to paid 'experts' and aren't aware or want to know about the details.

However, ignorance, while a valid excuse is also a weak one when all was required was direction from the invester for more ethical pursuits than necessarily effective ones.

I know I'm being totally unrealistic there...because the market is red in tooth and craw and in reality that's how it will always work if unfetted by regulation.

Still, I think we should still speak out if we think the system allows unfairness and if people choose to benefit from it.

A kind of fiscal swings and roundabouts.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Yep it's an absolute 100% fact Everyone gets so outraged by these stories that the media whip up. It makes you forget that you're only life is probably pretty good and what other people get up to is their business and largely irrelevant to your own happiness. Dispite this, in today's social media world, it gives some people an opportunity to get one their moral high horse and other to try any make out they are more caring than anyone else.

If people really felt that the government needed more money to squander they should donate it out of their own pocket first before moaning about others. But no one has done that ever.

People always ask to "define hard work" just so they can come out with some self pity story about how they deserve more money than other people. I didn't say you don't work hard either. I just said that they did and they shouldn't be forced to hand it over just because you want them too based on something you saw on the telly one time.

What like subsidising opera? Setting up some more Quangos? A few more support organisations for people who think they are the wrong gender? Some more multi-culturalism is so great propaganda producers?

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

How about the NHS and schools? Armed forces perhaps? Really, pretty much anything

You guys just think endlessly throwing money at problems solves them. You would pour unlimited amounts of money into your sacred cows like the NHS. You think the state should run everything and interfere even more in our lives despite the state being inefficient, wasteful and incapable of producing what people really want. You welcome ever more 'government' - regional assemblies with nice new expensive 'parliaments' raising yet more taxes. You pine for the EU with its massive cost and bureaucracy. More and more Quangos and advisory bodies trying to control us and what we think. We need less tax and less government.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]