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Why? Do you have a better solution that doesn’t involve bankrupting individuals and paying out corporations who gambled on other peoples money?

Are you cosplaying as the Monopoly man? Nobody who lived beyond the 1920's thinks this is a valid idea.

I think those replying (and downvoting) need to adjust their sarcasm detector and re-read.

Except there are plenty of people who truly believe that, and it's hard to tell the difference anymore

There's plenty of people who believe that Glass-Steagall needs to be repealed? It was repealed in 1999 (the relevant parts, anyway). That's part of how we got to 2008.

Anyone who believes that Glass-Steagall needs to be repealed is literally two decades behind on the news.

That's why I think that it was sarcasm. "We need to remove the post-crisis oversight" is being compared to repeal of Glass-Steagall. That helped create the next (2008) crisis; the implication being that ending the post-crisis supervision will help create the next crisis.