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Some of these companies seem to have figured out that you can just do things and get away with it if you don’t mind paying a few fines (maybe “fees” would be a
by binary132 11mo ago
Some of these companies seem to have figured out that you can just do things and get away with it if you don’t mind paying a few fines (maybe “fees” would be a better term??)
- bamboozled 11mo agoSome? This is basically how we let society work now. If you have money, you can do really abhorrent things and just get away with it with almost zero consequence. We have the law and the police setup to protect the rich from any real rebuttal to this status quo so we're locked in.
- captainkrtek 11mo agoEspecially if you donate money to politicians in power, extra perks
- XenophileJKO 11mo agoI guess my question is when was it ever not this way? Seems way better now than in the past.
- shakna 11mo agoIt doesn't [0] always work out [1] this way. But it does seem like a consistent theme across civil wars - when the divide between a ruling class and the average is too large, then something violent eventually happens [2]. Lets hope we rebalance before reaching the point where everyone loses, this time. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring
- acomjean 11mo agoA lot of times the businesses are long gone when the cleanup needs to be paid for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund
- YouAreWRONGtoo 11mo ago[dead]
- nashashmi 11mo agoI gladly run into parking tickets because the fine is less than the headache of distant parking