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I look forward to nothing being done about this and no one being held accountable.

hypeatei 2y ago
Yep, wouldn't expect anything else tbf. All the institutions and systems we've created are to maximize profits. No end goal in sight, just make number go up.
- Thiez 2y ago
  In Vietnam they know how to deal with this kind of thing. Maybe the people responsible can get the Trương Mỹ Lan treatment?
  - spxneo 2y ago
    inb4 alephnerd but US legitimacy/prestige has taken significant hit in the past 10 years and the trend seems to be accelerating. Truong My Lan may have been a pig to be butchered. Much like SBF/CZ in the US.
  - adamors 2y ago
    Do they? Her story sounds exactly like what happens in authoritarian regimes with people who fall out of favor, nothing more. She controlled the largest bank in Vietnam for 10 years and then suddenly gets sentenced to death? In Russia, these people fall out of windows. This isn't justice.
    - elzbardico 2y ago
      We're getting there. Now we have Boeing whistleblowers dying suddenly. But let's not forget the fact that a president was killed in daylight and nobody knows what really happened even after some 50 years since the fact.
colpabar 2y ago
For me the best part was everyone telling us that nothing like this was happening, that something like this wasn't even possible, that corporate greed could NEVER have ANYTHING to do with the price of everything going up.
- knowaveragejoe 2y ago
  In the worst case scenario your suspicions explain ~20% of price increases, so let's not get carried away with "I told you so"s.
- wolverine876 2y ago
  In my personal experience, lots of people were talking about it, including the White House; there were articles in the NY Times about it, etc.
dang 2y ago
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. I understand the reason for repeating these sentiments—it's the same reason why they get upvoted to the top of threads*—but repetition of this kind is what we're trying to avoid here. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by%3Adang%20indig&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html * I've marked this one off topic now.

Yep, wouldn't expect anything else tbf. All the institutions and systems we've created are to maximize profits. No end goal in sight, just make number go up.

Thiez 2y ago
In Vietnam they know how to deal with this kind of thing. Maybe the people responsible can get the Trương Mỹ Lan treatment?
- spxneo 2y ago
  inb4 alephnerd but US legitimacy/prestige has taken significant hit in the past 10 years and the trend seems to be accelerating. Truong My Lan may have been a pig to be butchered. Much like SBF/CZ in the US.
- adamors 2y ago
  Do they? Her story sounds exactly like what happens in authoritarian regimes with people who fall out of favor, nothing more. She controlled the largest bank in Vietnam for 10 years and then suddenly gets sentenced to death? In Russia, these people fall out of windows. This isn't justice.
  - elzbardico 2y ago
    We're getting there. Now we have Boeing whistleblowers dying suddenly. But let's not forget the fact that a president was killed in daylight and nobody knows what really happened even after some 50 years since the fact.

colpabar 2y ago

For me the best part was everyone telling us that nothing like this was happening, that something like this wasn't even possible, that corporate greed could NEVER have ANYTHING to do with the price of everything going up.

knowaveragejoe 2y ago
In the worst case scenario your suspicions explain ~20% of price increases, so let's not get carried away with "I told you so"s.
wolverine876 2y ago
In my personal experience, lots of people were talking about it, including the White House; there were articles in the NY Times about it, etc.

dang 2y ago

Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. I understand the reason for repeating these sentiments—it's the same reason why they get upvoted to the top of threads*—but repetition of this kind is what we're trying to avoid here. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=curiosity%20repetition%20by%3Adang%20indig&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html * I've marked this one off topic now.