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> the rich and powerful[1] face no consequences for wrongdoing. Bernie Madoff. Jeff Epstein & Ghislane Maxwell. Sam Bankman-Fried. Elizabeth Holmes. Harvey Wei
by tbrownaw 2y ago
> the rich and powerful[1] face no consequences for wrongdoing.
Bernie Madoff. Jeff Epstein & Ghislane Maxwell. Sam Bankman-Fried. Elizabeth Holmes. Harvey Weinstein.
I get that sometimes you'll see things like Hunter Biden's tax issues being allowed to pass the statute of limitations, but a universal "the rich never face consequences" is just plain false.
- ryandrake 2y agoYou can always cherry pick a few counter examples to any argument without invalidating the typical case.
- slt2021 2y agocan you list how many financiers were jailed after 2008 GFC ? can you find any? can you list how many people were jailed for engineering SARS-CoV? heck, government hasn't even acknowledge that it was engineered and still pushes fairy tale about bat infecting pangolin who infected a chain of few other animals and then ended up in wet market - but no signs of viruses in 1000 miles between caves and wet market were ever found
- hobs 2y agoWell, disregarding the bankers - generally we require evidence to be presented in a court of law and then those findings to be found true for people to go to jail - repeating stuff you read on the internet doesn't really rise to that level.
- lucianbr 2y agoIf you approach it with mathemathical universality, yes, it is false. But what about "95% of the time 95% of the rich do not face consequences"? It's still a huge problem, and probably what the commenter meant.