In other words, "I disagree with you."

Could you add something to the discussion? A real argument, perhaps? Nobody called for a hand-raising of who was for or against economic regulation.

Actually, I'd say it's more snarky than "I disagree with you", it's "you haven't thought this through or you would disagree with you".

If you like analogies, consider the difference between using an old, creaky, but battle-tested codebase that handles mission-critical tasks, and saying "we should just throw it all away, build a quick and dirty open source replacement, and let people fork the heck out of it". Old crufty code contains lots of horrible crap, but a lot of it is there because it's necessary. Replacing the financial system with some kind of anarchy -- meritocratic or not -- is going to have the same effect, and we can't afford for something as critical to everyone's wellbeing as the financial system turn into an unstable Darwinian mess.

In any event, I was going to write an essay, but a one-liner was funnier.