• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    We seem to like to draw a line between crimes where the damages caused are visible from those where the damages caused are less visible, but its undoubtable that the crimes of the wealthy, so called white collar crimes, cause just as real material pain and suffering and societal damage.

    If anything, the consequences of a crime should be scaled by your wealth and privileged in a society, because you really have no excuse for not following the law. Earn above a million dollars a year? Well a parking ticket costs you 10s of thousands of dollars? Earn above a billion a year and park outside the lines? Gallows.

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      8 months ago

      Earn above a billion a year and park outside the lines? Gallows.

      Making these people members of the working class is a fate worse than death.

      I think we should just do that.

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      8 months ago

      If proven beyond a doubt, I agree. But the communist leadership has been fairly lax on enforcement … until now that is. One has to wonder why all of a sudden they’ve decided to do something?