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Remember the golden rule of the golden rules: Who has the gold makes the rules.

atemerev 12d ago
If a society operates under a rule like this, it is no better than Russia or any other tyranny where law is for me but not for thee. This is not how it should work in a supposedly free and lawful country.
- bio_hacker 12d ago
  That’s how works everywhere
  - seanw444 12d ago
    You're downvoted, but it's true. Some places just mask it with fancy processes and manners a bit better.
- lovich 12d ago
  It’s been working like that in the US for a while. Do you think the bottom 99% of the country would ever win a legal fight with one of the tech billionaires? Even if they were 100% in the right, they could just drag out the legal process with endless motions and appeals until the average Joe lacked the funds to continue the fight.
  - atemerev 12d ago
    Well I have heard that some people managed to sue some corporations and actually win some cases before.
    - bayindirh 12d ago
      PFAS case is a rare occurrence, and this is after DuPont knowing the harms and downplaying or ignoring it for decades. A similar thing has been surfaced in Dalton, Georgia, again about PFAS [0]. Let's see how will it play out... [0]: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/pfas-forever-chemicals-carpet-industry-georgia/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/pfas-forever-chem...
    - lovich 12d ago
      When I said the tech billionaires I meant the actual oligarchs. Companies will eventually take a cost benefit evaluation and stop fighting if the risk is too high or the fines too large. A personal billionaire who decides to fuck you over is capable of behaving irrationally and just beating you via resources. Look at trumps infinite appeal strategy which apparently works. He only just was forced to pay Jean Carrol a few months ago, four years after he lost his civil case. If you’re a regular Joe and some billionaire harmed you in a way that hurt your income. You’re not gonna be able to afford 4 years of legal battles. As long as money buys power in our legal system, you can’t compete with someone with effectively infinite more wealth than you.

If a society operates under a rule like this, it is no better than Russia or any other tyranny where law is for me but not for thee. This is not how it should work in a supposedly free and lawful country.

bio_hacker 12d ago
That’s how works everywhere
- seanw444 12d ago
  You're downvoted, but it's true. Some places just mask it with fancy processes and manners a bit better.
lovich 12d ago
It’s been working like that in the US for a while. Do you think the bottom 99% of the country would ever win a legal fight with one of the tech billionaires? Even if they were 100% in the right, they could just drag out the legal process with endless motions and appeals until the average Joe lacked the funds to continue the fight.
- atemerev 12d ago
  Well I have heard that some people managed to sue some corporations and actually win some cases before.
  - bayindirh 12d ago
    PFAS case is a rare occurrence, and this is after DuPont knowing the harms and downplaying or ignoring it for decades. A similar thing has been surfaced in Dalton, Georgia, again about PFAS [0]. Let's see how will it play out... [0]: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/pfas-forever-chemicals-carpet-industry-georgia/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/pfas-forever-chem...
  - lovich 12d ago
    When I said the tech billionaires I meant the actual oligarchs. Companies will eventually take a cost benefit evaluation and stop fighting if the risk is too high or the fines too large. A personal billionaire who decides to fuck you over is capable of behaving irrationally and just beating you via resources. Look at trumps infinite appeal strategy which apparently works. He only just was forced to pay Jean Carrol a few months ago, four years after he lost his civil case. If you’re a regular Joe and some billionaire harmed you in a way that hurt your income. You’re not gonna be able to afford 4 years of legal battles. As long as money buys power in our legal system, you can’t compete with someone with effectively infinite more wealth than you.