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The spins, in order of ascending cynicism: 1) This teaches us that the current vices exemplified by the main characters (selfishness, narcissism, and greed) will be punished.
Cocaine use is illegal, but as governor of Texas, he's toughened penalties for people convicted of selling or possessing less than a gram of coke (a crime previously punished by probation).
In the absence of that, a woman's promise to take charge of birth control and then not doing so remains the only form of monetary fraud Today's Papers can think of that is not only not punished, but is in fact regularly rewarded.
But what's interesting is that it isn't just stocks trading at stratospheric levels that are punished, nor is it just stocks that fall well short of expectations.
The immediate reaction was the imposition of the Hays Office code of morals, which decreed that in all Hollywood films sin must be punished — it could be shown in detail, but it must always be punished.