Michael Lewis
speaker
11,580 appearances
71 recordings
16 series
first heard Sep 2020
last heard 23 Jun
Michael Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So if you're bringing a lot of outrage, bringing thunder to it, you don't give them any choice.
It's like, oh, you gotta feel this way.
It screws up the story.
It's bad writing, but
But in this case, in particular, I had this thing that I wanted the reader to feel uncomfortable with and have them figure out where they were going to go with this discomfort.
And the thing was, the heroes, in quotes, the protagonists of this book, you would naturally be lionizing because, oh, wow, they're so smart.
They figured out what was wrong and they made a killing.
They made a killing on the collapse of the society.
How do you feel about that?
And if I'm throwing around a lot of outrage, you're not leaving the reader the room to jump one way or the other.
You don't know how to feel about it.
And what complicates it even further is all of the characters as they get into the big short, as they get into this, oh my God.
First, I think I'm making a kind of interesting trade against Wall Street.
This looks like a good bet.
They're giving me 25 to one odds that nothing bad's gonna happen here.
And they dig in, they realize this is not just a good bet, it's a great bet.
Wait, wait, this is almost a sure thing.
I'm getting 25 to one odds for it's gonna happen.
And that starts to feel criminal.
Like there's some sort of criminal, and they start to realize that all the people on the other side of the bet, the people whose institutions are gonna lose money and those losses are gonna be possibly foisted upon the taxpayer, the individuals have all made a fortune generating these crappy loans, and it starts to look really sinister.
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