Absolutely brilliant. My favorite quote, toward the end of the article, "Incomprehension is a form of consent. If we allow ourselves not to understand this language, we are signing off on the way the world works today" So true, that our choice to search for understanding and meaning is, and will always be, our best defense against poor financial decision making.
Way back before the financial crisis, one of the Federal Reserve board members (Edward Gramlich, chair of the Kansas City Fed), in a 2007 essay arguing against subprime mortgages posed the question: Why are the riskiest mortgage products sold to the least educated borrowers? The answer he offered was the obvious one: They are being intentionally duped. He was, unfortunately, largely ignored yet proven correct by history.