When last we checked in with Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs president had recently escaped from the insane asylum better known as the Trump White House, and was in the ‘thanking god for the little things in life’ phase. “I feel freer, I feel more rested, I feel happier,” he told CNBC in his first interview after re-entering society. Now, two months later, he appears to be drawing out that post-freedom high, likely thanks to the fact that, by his own estimate, he spends ”two-thirds” of his time out in the Hamptons playing golf, and the rest considering highly remunerative possibilities for his next act, should he decide to ever work again—something he doesn’t technically have to do, considering his net worth is reportedly somewhere between $252 million and $611 million. “I’m having a great time,” he told Bloomberg over the weekend at an event hosted by his wife in Sag Harbor. Also presumably bringing a smile to his tanned, well-rested face, aside from the money, the free time, and the distinct lack of Donald Trump in his life? The fact that tech firms are letting him sleep at little easier.

“It’s very interesting how the world turns,” Cohn mused to reporter Amanda Gordon, when asked about Facebook and the social-media giant’s role in promoting fake news and influencing elections. “In ’08, Facebook was one of those companies that was a big platform to criticize banks, they were very out front of criticizing banks, for not being responsible citizens. I think banks were more responsible citizens in ’08 than some of the social-media companies are today. And it affects everyone in the world. The banks have never had that much pull.”

To put it mildly, this is . . . an interesting argument to make! On the one hand, companies like Mark Zuckerberg’s are doing horrible things to society, such as letting news they know to be untrue run rampant; helping to elect Donald Trump; creating facial-recognition tools that civil-liberties experts worry could “enable a mass-surveillance system”; causing depression; and, in the humble opinion of the United Nations, contributing to genocide in Myanmar. They’re really pretty evil! On the other hand, banks effectively crashed the economy, which led to millions of people losing their jobs, millions of home foreclosures, and cost Americans $12.8 trillion—something that is also quite egregious, but in its own, uniquely terrible way. Comparing how irresponsible banks were were in ’08 to how irresponsible social-media companies are now feels a lot like arguing over who was worse, Mao or Pol Pot. They’re both monsters, but they’re unique monsters! Sure, you could come up with reasons to support one argument or the other, and some might say that nothing Wall Street did could ever be as bad as helping to elect our current president. But to say banks were basically performing humanitarian acts when their greed tipped us into the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s might be overstating how much better Wall Street comes off by comparison, just a little bit.

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Eh, maybe Gar has a point

This will definitely turn out well and result in not one unanticipated negative outcome for users: