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> And while Manfred Schmider went to jail for a couple of years he apparently still managed to move a lot of his assets overseas and comfortably lives on Mallor

• piva00 6y ago
  It signals to a lot of us that there are very different rules when playing on the "elite" level of the economy. When you amass power enough through capital our current system definitely tips over to be lenient against them, and the longer I live the more I feel it's not necessarily by design but definitely this hole is left open in the capitalist system on purpose. This is one of the reasons why I feel that over time I got very much supportive to "eating the rich", their power to skirt the law is way overdue to be corrected.
  • allendoerfer 6y ago
    > This is one of the reasons why I feel that over time I got very much supportive to "eating the rich", their power to skirt the law is way overdue to be corrected. I am feeling the same way. Also for me it is not about them being rich or powerful, but more about general lack of accountability throughout the whole system.
  • MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
    > "eating the rich" Thats an unfortunate side-effect of a weak justice system. I believe the "eating the rich" attitude is very unhelpful. We need entrepreneurs, we need startups. If rich people are the problem, that would mean that every time a new business is founded, the world becomes a little worse. This is obviously not the case.
    • ves 6y ago
      Founding a business doesn’t necessarily make you rich.
      • MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
        Did you have a point besides stating the obvious?