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This is quite true. I think the anger over this kind of thing comes from somewhere else, and they're right that the article title is unprofessional and the ang
by dingusdew 4y ago
This is quite true. I think the anger over this kind of thing comes from somewhere else, and they're right that the article title is unprofessional and the anger misdirected.
I think the actual issue is that people understand that someone like Musk, one of the worlds richest people, can essentially keep appealing rulings until he gets a ruling he likes simply because he can afford to.
The justice system is broken when it allows endless chances for those with oodles of money like Musk, but the rest of us can't afford that and usually have to accept what we're given.
It's not helpful for people's feelings about that aspect of this issue to cloud how they discuss it. Musk's legal team isn't doing anything wrong within the legal framework, but people tire of it because it seems that with enough money, you can essentially get away with anything.
The US justice system has essentially always been pay-to-play/pay-to-win. It's part of why the government doesn't like getting embroiled in legal battles with billionaires because they know they can delay and appeal for decades because they can afford a team lawyers for that long. The governments allotted budget for a legal case is often much smaller than a billionaires.
It's how the system was built from the ground up and if we don't like it we should probably vote in some folks who will prioritize changing how it works instead of always being angry at rich people for doing what they're incentivized to do based on how the system works.
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