(December 17, 2015 at 2:45 pm)abaris Wrote:(December 17, 2015 at 12:11 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: None of the bankers that were responsible for the 2008 bubble spent a moment in prison, and this kid who was 16, drunk driving, and killed 4 people, and got 10 years probation because he was too rich to understand the consequences of his actions. Now he's apparently flown the country after being found in violation of his probation. This is 'Murrica, and rich people have their rights, you know.
The afluency kid. I remember this one. And of course I remember pharma dude, who skyrocketed the prices for medication by some 100 percents. Yes, let me break it down for you. You can afford a lawyer, worthy of his trade, and you go free. You get a public defender and you go down for any misdemeanor.
I'm not sure, if it's better anywhere else, but right now my country is convicting former politicians and lobbyists by the number. We had a rightwing coalition between 2000 and 2006. And these guys and gals still keep the courts very busy with all the corruption surfacing. Right now, a rather prominent lobbyist, married to a former minister, got three years of free federal housing.
If you rip off middle class or poor people you are never sent to prison. Bernie Madoff was one of the few who went to prison because he ripped off rich people. Also some of the people who were involved suffered some pretty suspicious heart attacks. Chances are a mob boss or someone was pissed off at getting ripped off. Assassins exist and the rich have access to them in a way that the middle class and poor do not. It's a reality that if a banker rips off a very rich person, his life may be at risk. If poor people crowdfunded private assassins, bankers would be more honest.