[ryandrake]

You know, it's possible that both are bad.

The root problem is that the rich and powerful[1] face no consequences for wrongdoing. It's endemic to every part of life, and nothing gets done about it because the rich and powerful make the rules. It really doesn't matter if they happen to be aligned with "Team Corporation" or "Team Government". They are equally unaccountable to justice.

1: Rich and Powerful are both the exact same thing since money is frictionlessly convertible to power and vice versa.

[tbrownaw]

> the rich and powerful[1] face no consequences for wrongdoing.

Bernie Madoff. Jeff Epstein & Ghislane Maxwell. Sam Bankman-Fried. Elizabeth Holmes. Harvey Weinstein.

I get that sometimes you'll see things like Hunter Biden's tax issues being allowed to pass the statute of limitations, but a universal "the rich never face consequences" is just plain false.

[ryandrake]

You can always cherry pick a few counter examples to any argument without invalidating the typical case.

[lucianbr]

If you approach it with mathemathical universality, yes, it is false.

But what about "95% of the time 95% of the rich do not face consequences"? It's still a huge problem, and probably what the commenter meant.

[slt2021]

can you list how many financiers were jailed after 2008 GFC ?

can you find any?

can you list how many people were jailed for engineering SARS-CoV?

heck, government hasn't even acknowledge that it was engineered and still pushes fairy tale about bat infecting pangolin who infected a chain of few other animals and then ended up in wet market - but no signs of viruses in 1000 miles between caves and wet market were ever found

[hobs]

Well, disregarding the bankers - generally we require evidence to be presented in a court of law and then those findings to be found true for people to go to jail - repeating stuff you read on the internet doesn't really rise to that level.