That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing --the truly democratic thing about it --is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
Source: The Worst Years of Our Lives, How You Can Save Wall Street (1991; first published 1988).
-- Barbara Ehrenreich, (Aug 26 1941-____), US writer; She wrote Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, 1972.