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Stats would be nice... It's easy to remember a few top executives being prosecuted over 50 years, and hard to remember historical cases from the past 10 years..

• coldtea 8y ago
  >It's easy to remember a few top executives being prosecuted over 50 years, and hard to remember historical cases from the past 10 years.. because they are not historical yet. That doesn't make sense. Cases from the past 10 years should be easier to remember, because "historical" or not (this is a needless distinction here), they are (a) more recent, (b) more likely to have been written about in the news/social media/shows/etc one reads than older cases. The use of "historical" here is a distinction that confuses more than illuminates. Even if "it's hard to remember historical cases from the past 10 years.. because they are not historical yet", it should be easier to remember big cases from the past 10 years, period.
  • jopsen 8y ago
    Okay, I may have confused myself :) I think the point was events always looks better at a distance..