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And if you fall out of favour, your company gets taken away from you. See Khodorkovsky as an example.
by est31 7y ago
And if you fall out of favour, your company gets taken away from you. See Khodorkovsky as an example.
- bitL 7y agoWasn't it more like "if you try to subvert current power and install your own puppets, all using money you stole with the help of current power"? I think in China they shot such people. In US/EU that would land such person on a few blacklists instead and certain portions of business would be hard to do.
- LegitShady 7y agoThey might become secretary of state tho
- bitL 7y agoIf they win; in the aforementioned example that person lost. I never understood why should I feel any sympathies to either crook just because certain powers used them for their own purposes.
- LegitShady 7y agothey did become secretary of state, and many shady situations and abuse of power appear to have happened. I am inclined to believe the intelligence apparatus was turned against their political opponents unethically and perhaps illegally. They succeeded in this and so far they have gotten away with it. Bill Barr has had the ability to declassify for 80 days, nothing yet. I expect nothing but covering up for the DoJ and Wray's FBI.
- RavlaAlvar 7y agoAlso, see Alibaba
- joejerryronnie 7y agoAbsolutely correct. Jack Ma was smart enough to realize he had amassed too much wealth, power, and influence to remain in the good graces of The Party. He was, essentially, one step ahead of the firing squad (or at least a major state contrived scandal which would land him in jail for a decade). This seems to be the opposite of the US system where, once you amass that amount of wealth, power, and influence, you get to control the major political parties.