As usual your response is sagging under the weight of...

As usual your response is sagging under the weight of unnecessary hyperbole about exponential rises and discrete participants, but what the heck I'll take your bait. I have a lot more to say about algo parties later but we are nearly in the weekend - it will have to wait. If I employed a person who did not have the nous to pick up a phone when he had an instruction that was out of the market so far as to be stuck in a dead end, he would need a bloody good story to avoid picking up his pay - like he just had ear surgery or needed an amputation. This is a problem seen every day in our work - through the 70's, 80's, 90's, noughties, and teenies, Order takers who cannot think.