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Here's what I disagree about the article. That white collar crimes are committed by high IQ people. It's the socioeconomic lineage that gives you to access to
by brilliantcode 10y ago
Here's what I disagree about the article. That white collar crimes are committed by high IQ people.
It's the socioeconomic lineage that gives you to access to such position where it's very easy to commit crimes that the law is not designed to punish. Much of the written laws are around hauling violent criminals away from civilization.
While high IQ could empower someone to feel that they can get away with white collar crime, such disposition are innately built from their lack of attachment that arises from being isolated from poverty and all the bullshit that comes with non-upper class life.
You go to an elite school, meet other friends who think rules for tools, they go onto work at powerful positions, it's all too simple to collude and create secret societies to further their collective monetary ambitions.
It really seems to be true what they say. There are rules for those who made it (because they create the rules) and conditions and terms for those who didn't make it (you follow the rules). It almost seems to me like the whole system is a sham.
Imagine if Ghengis Khan discovered the best way to conquer people and other nations is not by force but by credits and materialism. In a chaotic and lawless reality, law is created by individuals who impose their power on rest of society. We are so entrenched that we are "right" and rest of the world is "wrong", we've become a slave because we are told we are free to make our own decisions-limited by powerful men who play God.