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The execs getting the bonus know that other USA execs won't frown on this. The execs getting the bonus know regulators won't come after them. The execs gettin
by amiga_500 6y ago
The execs getting the bonus know that other USA execs won't frown on this.
The execs getting the bonus know regulators won't come after them.
The execs getting the bonus know the media won't name and shame them.
The execs getting the bonus know that nobody in their social circle will shun them.
The execs getting the bonus don't even think this is wrong, as the main aim is to grab what you can when you can, and if it's immoral, well someone should change the rules.
Yes laws need changing, but laws are set by culture, ultimately.
This is a deep, deep cultural problem that is killing the USA, and I've yet to see it acknowledged anywhere in the mainstream.
- inerte 6y agoDepends what you mean by mainstream, or acknowledged. That's one of main talking points of Bernie Sanders, which was almost there as the Democrat candidate. I feel like everybody had the chance to see it, so it was mainstream. Acknowledged in the sense that we recognize this an as actual, structural and cultural problem? Yeah, not happened. Not in this country, where "the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires". I at least hope people understood being rich and running a business doesn't automatically translate to being good at public office.
- hedora 6y agoWasn’t Trump’s other campaign slogan “Drain the swamp?”
- kaiju0 6y agoIt's completely rational. The company is going into bankruptcy. The money can be mine or someone else's. If you had a chance to get $1,000,000 or the bank takes it with no consequences what do you do?
- triceratops 6y agoThe money is already someone else's, by law: the creditors'. Rational != ethical, which is what the GP is arguing. There are many things that are entirely rational to do that we nevertheless don't do. Either due to societal mores or laws, or both.
- amiga_500 6y agoAnd that is exhibit A. Ingrained into the culture. Rational, even, when considered within an utterly flawed framework. That's the scale of the challenge to dig yourselves out of.