the world was less 'interesting'?
It must be once in a lifetime experience to witness the collapse of the financial markets and the contamination of dairy products to run in parallel.
Melamine was added to raise protein levels artificially the same way as lending indiscriminately to raise profit levels. I now understand why the US$700bn bailout failed. It really was unfair to let the people pay for the mistake of those individuals. Yet, it might just affect them the same in any case.
And there seems no end at the moment.
Another chocolate found tainted, and another bank collapsed. What next? People shunned the stock markets as they do to dairy products. Now they really want to make it less interesting.