Comment by throw4847285

I assumed the word choice was a reference to this line from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald:

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

Given the way the novel is written, this is intentional understatement.