> For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. When the hell did

> For fifteen thousand years, fraud and short sighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? The problem is that for far too many people fraud and short sighted thinking have been working out great. Really great. Fraud and short sighted thinking have been making people money hand over fist. It's turned people into billionaires. Occasionally one of them gets a slap on the wrist, on extremely rare occasions one of them will end up behind bars, true, but the more money you make the less likely that becomes. Eventually you get people who are literal serial killers but are basically untouchable because even while they commit crimes repeatedly, publicly, admittedly, they are rich enough to be above the law. The "eventually you get caught" argument no longer holds up. The "things go south" argument is still true, but things don't go south for the people making a fortune committing crimes. They go south for the rest of us. The solutions to fraud and corruption haven't changed. It takes transparency and accountability. Until we have those things consistently both corporations and assholes will continue to do whatever makes them the most money regardless of what laws they break or who gets hurt.