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I imagine if you asked Dick Cheney about the Iraq War, Wall Street executives about the 2008 financial crisis, or the heads at the NSA about the Snowden revelat
by santoriv 10y ago
I imagine if you asked Dick Cheney about the Iraq War, Wall Street executives about the 2008 financial crisis, or the heads at the NSA about the Snowden revelations, they would give you a similar response.
Even when you are caught lying, fabricating, breaking the law, or defrauding the public, you will get away with it 100% if you are in a position of wealth and power. American institutions are apparently not strong enough to deal with this kind of corruption.
Sometimes I wonder if I should give my children the advice "Be good and moral and care about other people" or "Do everything you can to be rich and powerful so you can make yourself as immune to adversity as possible."
Sometimes I feel like the latter would be more helpful.
- juliusCaesar 10y agoIf you must break the law, do it to seize power; in all other cases observe it.
- eli_gottlieb 10y ago>Sometimes I wonder if I should give my children the advice "Be good and moral and care about other people" or "Do everything you can to be rich and powerful so you can make yourself as immune to adversity as possible." Give them the former advice, and also tell them to make themselves as immune to adversity as possible because the world contains bad people. Goodness doesn't stop being good because badness exists, nor does the world become better by a refusal to confront and eliminate bad things.