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• csdvrx 5y ago
  • AlexandrB 5y ago
    I agree with you as long as we apply the same standard to "white collar crime". Embezzle money from your company? Off to death row for you. Defraud investors? Death row. Run a Ponzi scheme? Death row. Alternately, give defrauded investors the same rights you suggest for property owners so they can hunt the guilty party themselves.
    • csdvrx 5y ago
      I love of whenever we talk about "theft", people cry "but what about wage theft". There's a clear difference in scope, amount, consequence (...), so much that except having the same letter in the same order, it's not the same thing. "Wage theft" means a small underpayment, which is (1) directly and immediately found, (2) can be put to a stop right after it happens by going to another job, (3) carries legal financial consequences to someone with deeper pocket, the employer (and I'm not even talking about negative press) "Theft" in the case of the attacked trains is for much larger amounts, is apparently unstoppable and carries 0 consequences to the perpetrators - should they even be found, charged and convicted, I don't think their estate would be able to cover even a fraction of the losses. To your favor, you didn't mention "wage theft" (yet), but here, you're doing essentially the same thing with a bunch of similar words. FYI, all that you mention carry heavy consequences: just look at how it went for Holmes or Madoff.