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In cases of conspiracy, I believe the illegal act is the very act of meeting to plan criminal activity. The effectiveness of such planning is not the deciding
by akbar501 13y ago
In cases of conspiracy, I believe the illegal act is the very act of meeting to plan criminal activity.
The effectiveness of such planning is not the deciding factor as to whether or not the people involved have behaved criminally.
As a parallel, planning to distribute illegal drugs is illegal (conspiracy to distribute). While actually distributing is an additional charge. Something similar is going to happen here, where the executives in question may have broken several laws only one of which is conspiracy.
I'm not a lawyer, so I could be wrong. But this is what I remember from Business Law during my MBA.
- ghshephard 13y agopg wasn't questioning whether this was illegal or not, he was interested in what the impact was.
- cma 13y ago> he was interested in what the impact was No he wasn't; comparing tech salary growth to other salary growth in the presence of a tech boom was completely disingenuous. Wages can increase relative to other industries, and still be being slowed by collusion. It would be just as disingenuous if someone said we should measure it by whether tech companies' profit per-employee increased during the time relative to other fields, which would give the exact opposite conclusion.
- aptwebapps 13y agoIf you had good enough data you would be looking at the change over time and could see dips in the rate of change. Also, 'disingenuous'? Because he posited the idea that there might be data that could be brought to bear?