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This guy was all over the news several months ago. It seems that every generation must relearn this difficult lesson about the dangers of smooth talking men guaranteeing large returns on cash investments. Americans have Charles Ponzi as an example, now the Japanese have Ogami.

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Oh yeah, and the scumbags who helped him should get the noose as well:

In daily business meetings, his employees were forced to chant his pithy sayings from what he called "the messiah's creed"; those who balked risked getting the sack.

No one forces you to do anything. If you think he's an idiot, quit, and find a respectable job. Quoting Han Solo:

"No reward is worth this"

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"We all shut up and stuck it out because we needed the salary," sighs Toshinori Nakajima, an executive appointed acting president before he quit last fall. "No one actually believed in any of the stuff."

I'll let Edmund Burke speak for me:

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"