I think it's good to have a chip on your shoulder because it's motivating.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.