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??)

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bamboozled 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Some? 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.

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acomjean 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A lot of times the businesses are long gone when the cleanup needs to be paid for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund

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XenophileJKO 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I guess my question is when was it ever not this way? Seems way better now than in the past.

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shakna 18 hours ago | parent [-]

It 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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

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binary132 11 hours ago | parent [-]

The Russian and French Revolutions are hardly examples of “a different way” to be pointed to. I’m a Rerum Novarum appreciator personally.

	▲	shakna 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If "Let them eat cake" isn't an example, I don't know what is.

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captainkrtek 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Especially if you donate money to politicians in power, extra perks

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YouAreWRONGtoo 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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nashashmi 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I gladly run into parking tickets because the fine is less than the headache of distant parking