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During communism in my country we still had a corrupted ruling class with more power, freedom, liberty and so forth. I'm never going to be a part of it and have
by ttt0 5y ago
During communism in my country we still had a corrupted ruling class with more power, freedom, liberty and so forth. I'm never going to be a part of it and have the same options either way. Nor do I even have any desire to be a part of it.
> Let's assume that you can't speed indefinitely though, let's say it's a wreckless driving offense, well for me I'm out of options--after a ticket or two I'll lose my license to drive which is critical to my livelihood.
That's pretty much how it works in my country. I believe the only exception is when you have governmental immunity and that has nothing to do with wealth.
> What if I'm really rich and I hire someone to speed for me: a driver? As a passenger I have no legal responsibility, it's the driver.
And guess what happens then? He will lose his driving license too and he won't be able to do this job anymore.
Maybe instead of flipping the entire society upside down you should simply improve the law to prevent such scenarios. It can be done.
Comparing this to murder is too much of a stretch to me.
- Frost1x 5y ago>Maybe instead of flipping the entire society upside down you should simply improve the law to prevent such scenarios. It can be done. Which is what I continually advocate for. We need to patch these flaws and add mechanisms to patch future flaws more quickly because corruption is highly adaptive, we need to be as responsive as it is. We have an otherwise pretty well functioning system. Wealth should not buy you more rights in society, it should buy you luxuries and serve as a reward, not allow oppression, authoritarianism, and so forth.