This is reddit in a nutshell. I'll post pictures and without fail the first response is always some version of Subduction, with zero citation. "fake, this is actually not scarlett johansson touching a chimps dick, it's a lookalike named cassie mccleft, and that, you moron, is a bonobo" and he'll end up with 55 upvotes and my thread will collapse upon itself.

Reddit is like a town of crazy gold prospectors, or for you youngin's, stock market floor screamers (technical term). They run to something they initially think has promise, scream like crazy while waving paper in the air or jump in the river and start panning (this represents the initial surge of upvotes, and the only reason I'm still alive) and then someone emerges from the shadows, whether it be an enron employee, republican strategist or in the case of the panhandlers, that god damn swindler woodtooth o'brien and gives some bad news like "the CEO of this IPO has HIV" or "Aint gold ya darn fools! tis devils dandruft from the electrical storm four scores ago, best ye return to town and repent! furiously pans and masturbates himself into a fortune of gold that creates enough wealth to be handed down generation to generation, each thinking that they're better than the rest of society solely because they were born with a gigantic head start financially and as well as through connections in society, voting republican and investing in companies with knowledge and resources no one else has, gaming the market to increase their wealth and more importantly percentage of wealth, funding the campaigns both electoral and propagandist of people who will perpetuate a system that benefits only them while pretending to simply laud a free market which in reality only benefits established companies like woodtooth mcgees who crush those who are smart and inventive enough to come up with an idea and then finally get it to the market via an IPO by stepping out of the shadows once again and saying... "the CEO of the IPO has HIV"

And there, my friends, is the story of American capitalism.