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It really seems to me that to succeed in business in the US one has to skirt the line of legality with regularity.
by thakoppno 4y ago
It really seems to me that to succeed in business in the US one has to skirt the line of legality with regularity.
- dragonwriter 4y agoAt least, to succeed in substantive illegality, it becomes necessary to skirt and even cross the line of procedural illegality to conceal the substantive illegality. Whether substantive illegality is necessary to succeed in business is another question, but it seems to be a common choice.
- jacquesm 4y ago> Whether substantive illegality is necessary to succeed in business is another question, but it seems to be a common choice. You'd hope not. But there is this proverb that 'at the root of every great fortune lies a great crime' which has been around for long enough that even if it may not be a necessity it may well be strongly correlated.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> to succeed in business in the US one has to skirt the line of legality with regularity This is the conclusion of those with short memories. It’s why we consistently see idiotic insider-trading schemes.
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