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The chutzpah of some of these so-called tech companies is just mind boggling. - You need to do this. = Nah. - There's actually a law, you have to do this, li
by mpweiher 3y ago
The chutzpah of some of these so-called tech companies is just mind boggling.
- You need to do this.
= Nah.
- There's actually a law, you have to do this, like everybody else.
= We think the law is unfair, so we're not going to do this.
[Court] The law is perfectly fine, go away.
= "We are surprised and disappointed ... "
Hey I wanted to rob a bank...and despite advice to the contrary, I went ahead and did it, and now I am "surprised and disappointed" by being sentenced to prison.
- gumballindie 3y agoSounds a bit like what OpenAI does in regards to copyright. Looking forward to their AirBNB and hopefully WeWork moment.
- malux85 3y agoNobody goes to prison and you earn interest on all of that money for a year or two, what’s the downside? As long as nobody is held personally accountable these sorts of things will keep happening, we have to be tougher on the execs
- sgu999 3y ago> we have to be tougher on the execs Yes, but what if the exec's cousin's wife is playing golf with the chief of staff of the minister of the economy? Can't be tougher on this one, sorry.
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- namaria 3y agoBeing tougher on deviance cannot produce a world without deviance. Any system will be gamed. It will only shift it around. The middle class fantasy of perfect law enforcement is a fruit of our own moral self oppression. Powerful, wealthy people don't live by rules, they live by personal relationships and any fiction to the contrary is mere propaganda.
- Gud 3y agoTell that to Sam Bankman-Fried or the countless rich and powerful men and women who have been put in prison for wrongdoing.
- namaria 3y ago> countless rich and powerful men and women who have been put in prison for wrongdoing Jumping from one recent event to claiming other such examples are countless is not making the strong case you seem to think it is.
- philistine 3y agoThe rich have morals, irrespective of what others have said. Sam Bankman-Fried is coming from wealth, but not incommensurable wealth, and he did a crime so self-evident and destructive against the morals of money that there is no way to strike a sweetheart deal out of that.
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- malux85 3y agoI’m waiting to hear solutions … or do you only have criticisms? And how far do you take that? We can’t produce a world without deviance so we should just let it slide?
- namaria 3y agoIt's very common to state 'bring solutions or shut up' but that is just a way to stop the conversation short. I made a valid contribution, pointing out that knee-jerk "tough on crime" responses to news of criminal behavior is not only naive but counter productive. I don't have to provide a fix for a deeply complex issue - class relations - to point out that grabbing the pitchfork is a reaction that is expected of the populace and used by the elites to keep us down. What we should do, in my opinion, instead of crying out for tougher enforcement of laws, is to acknowledge that anti social behavior is a socialization issue, not a criminal issue. Punishment is self serving - I want to feel like those who exploit our good nature suffer for it. Cultivating higher morals is hard and won't change statistics overnight. But a world without corruption is a world without greed, not a world with harsh punishment for those caught stepping out of the line.