(From Margin Call. See it.)
SETH BREGMAN
Alright, Will, am I getting fired?
WILL EMERSON
I don’t know. Yeah, almost definitely, yes.
SETH BREGMAN
Are you?
WILL EMERSON
No. Seth, it’s nothing you did. You’re just on the wrong farm at the wrong time. You young guys are always the first to get culled. Listen, nothing I’m going to say is going to make you feel any better, its just gonna suck for a while and then you’ll be fine. You alright?
SETH BREGMAN
Yeah, yeah. I’m fine.
WILL EMERSON
For what its worth, I‘m sorry this is happening to you.
SETH BREGMAN
Don’t be, you didn’t do it to me.
WILL EMERSON
Still, at least you’re gonna have some nice cash to walk away with.
SETH BREGMAN
I guess. Shit, this is really gonna affect people.
WILL EMERSON
Yeah, its gonna affect people like me.
SETH BREGMAN
No no, real, real people.
WILL EMERSON
Jesus, Seth. Listen, if you really wanna do this with your life you have to believe you’re necessary and you are. People wanna live like this in their cars and big fucking houses they can’t even pay for, then you’re necessary. The only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is cause we got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and then the whole world gets really fuckin fair really fuckin quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they don’t. They want what we have to give them but they also wanna, you know, play innocent and pretend they have know idea where it came from. Well, thats more hypocrisy than I’m willing to swallow, so fuck em. Fuck normal people. You know, the funny thing is, tomorrow if all of this goes tits up they’re gonna crucify us for being too reckless but if we’re wrong, and everything gets back on track? Well then, the same people are gonna laugh till they piss their pants cause we’re gonna all look like the biggest pussies god ever let through the door.
SETH BREGMAN
You think we’re gonna be wrong?
WILL EMERSON
Nah. They’re all fucked.