'Idiots Made Me Rich'

Andrew Lahde, a 37-year-old hedge fund manager who quit after posting an 870 percent gain last year, sent a farewell letter to clients thanking stupid traders for making him rich and calling for the legalization of marijuana. Turns out that while he was raking in the dollars, he was building up a heap of resentment against the rich. "I was in this game for money," wrote Lahde. "The low-hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy, only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other sides of my trades. God Bless America.'' Youch!