Sadly, the more money you have, the more atrocious crimes you can commit. If you're a multi-billion dollar corporation, you can get away with actions that negatively affect large portions of our population or environment (destroying wetlands, rampantly polluting just because it's allowed under current EPA regulations, relaxing safety guidelines that lead to oil spills, corrupting officials, fraud, outsourcing, and over-litigating to avoid wrongful death lawsuits filed for grossly inadequate safety precautions because they can push a man with medical bills and no income out of a lawsuit just by filing papers in court for 5 years) simply because you have the money to hire lobbyists to pay congressmen to make what you're doing legal. Money talks. They teach you that if you always do what's right then you'll get ahead in this world. What they don't tell you is how naïve that worldview is.
No comments:
Post a Comment