Indeed. If we criminalized being shady most business owners in the continental US would be behind bars. Selling overpriced phones? Apple. Selling overpriced jun

Indeed. If we criminalized being shady most business owners in the continental US would be behind bars. Selling overpriced phones? Apple. Selling overpriced junk food? McDonalds. Selling overpriced headphones? Beats. Selling overpriced housing loans? Banks. Selling overpriced jeans? Levis. Selling overpriced smelly water? Perfume companies. Selling overpriced hydrocarbons? Deodorant companies. Overpriced sugar water? Coca cola. The list goes on and on and on. The system we live in is designed around rewarding people who can extract capital from others. That means everyone's fucking over everyone and only the most clearly fraudulent transactions are regulated away to minimize externalities. Is it optimal? No. But that's the reality of the system we live in.