One of his deeds was the theft of the Great Pyramid of Giza, which affected Gru's pride, and Vector contended with him for control of a shrink ray and eventually the moon.
If you take some of Letterman's $31 million, tax it away to support public schools, against his will, the state is really doing no better than stealing from him.
And unlike human economies that rely on cognition to make decisions, traders in this market, they beg, borrow, steal, cheat, all in the absence of thought.